sovay has asked for a roundup of all the scattered Anonymous reviews, like daggletailed sheep to the dip.
Here they are, a fanfaronade for Oxenford:
"We all, at one point or another, indulge fantasies that make the world
seem more dangerous, more glamorous and, simultaneously, much more
simple than it actually is. But then most of us grow up. Or put down
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Seriously, I would love Simon Foreman's snark on Oxford. Among all his other unendearing qualities, the Oxentoad dabbled in necromancy.
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"It’s actually a little sad that Edward Hogg didn’t have an actual moustache to twirl, because his hunch-backed malevolence ranks as one of the most cartoonish performances of the year - including the ones in “The Smurfs.”
"Orloff’s screenplay, on the other hand, is a disastrously overcomplicated affair, partially because of its wormhole of flashbacks and partially because it frequently overshadows the 'author’s identity' question with distracting, melodramatic digressions."
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Alas, I do not know enough about Robert Cecil to write his likely reaction to this portrayal, although Mary Gentle is quite sympathetic toward him in 1610: A Sundial in a Grave (2003).
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