Overview

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN facts are just a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, alist party boy on the continental circuit, that spent a yr and a half in Venice and travel from Europe, learning about commedia dell'arte and collecting the adventures that would become the Shakespeare plays. Shot in Venice, Verona, Mantua, Padua, and Brenta, the film ventures to Websites that were actual De Vere visited such as the settings such as TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, along with Your MERCHANT OF VENICE, OTHELLO, ROMEO & JULIET, in 1575-76. The film asserts that the bi sexuality of De Vere could be the reason for this pseudonym shakespeare, also features renowned Shakespeare scholars, actors, and directors, and including Tina Packer, Mark Rylance, Sir Derek Jacobi, along with Diane Paulus.