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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 14.2357  Monday, 15 December 2003

From:           Richard Burt <rburt@english.ufl.edu>
Date:           Friday, 12 Dec 2003 09:48:30 -0500
Subject:        Renaissance Related Film and TV Shows

  The Girl With a Pearl Earring will be released in January.

Next year (no date yet) on BBC
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot -
Four-part drama about Mary Queen Of Scots
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Mary%2C+Queen+of+Scots&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>,
James I
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/james_i_king.shtml> and
the Gunpowder Plot
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=The+Gunpowder+Plot&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>.
Written by award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Jimmy+McGovern&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>,
its stars include Robert Carlyle
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Robert+Carlyle&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>,
Clemence Poesy, Emilia Fox
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Emilia+Fox&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>,
Richard Coyle
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Richard+Coyle&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>,
Daniella Nardini
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Daniella+Nardini&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>
and Paul Nicholls
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/characters/joe_w_fact.shtml>.

Recently on BBCi:
Henry VIII ITV1 Sunday October 12
by: MadMaggie <http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/U216713> 12 October
03

A new take on Henry VIII is it possible? Certainly after Philippa
Gregory's "The Other Boleyn Girl" I was ready to view the whole sorry
saga with new eyes nor was I disappointed. Helena Bonham Carter was a
bewildered, beautiful and finally, totally wronged queen. The technique
of having Henry, played with consummate mastery by Ray Winstone, lurking
behind pillars eavesdropping, there but not there, was brilliant.  A
whole galaxy of stars played in this £6 million two-part production.
There was much sympathy and empathy created by seeing the women of those
powerful families as mere pawns for the family ambitions.  It was a new
approach having Ann Boleyn played as an unwilling victim.  History and
interpretations to date always show her as an ageing, not particularly
pretty, scheming manipulative unpopular harridan. Last night's telefilm
showed a far more human side with her tenderly embracing two-year-old
Elizabeth as she goes to her own execution.  Were Henry 7's final words
"Have a son?" I wonder? I could see the need but did he ever actually
utter those words? Henry came over as self indulgent and powerful but
also charming and quixotic. Surprising to see that he could be
attractive and charismatic to us despite being aware of the burden of
history.  Next week's story was tantalisingly glimpsed with Emilia Fox
playing Jane Seymour proudly bringing forth the longed for male heir. We
know what happened in the history books but the how makes entertaining
and disturbing viewing.

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