Anonymous marks a meeting point where many history distorting elements come together to make something anew. It matches the false-but-fun Shakespeare in Love with the factually dubious of Amadeus and puts it all under the artistic thumb of Roland Emmerich, director of the history stomping atrocities that were The Patriot and 10,000 BC.
Did Shakespeare write his own plays? We'll likely never truly know the answer. Oh no wait. The answer is yes. Regardless of where you stand on the mystery, the notion that only someone of high birth could have created his works is highly suspect, as any J.K. Rowling fan can tell you.
