I love Elizabeth's scenes, too, and I believe they actually incorperated somet things that she actually said. "Have a care with my name, you'll wear it out." What I love, too, are the shifting allegiances, the way nobility and practicality motivates these people. When, after the big brawl, Geoffrey Rush's theatre owner is confronted by Burbage, it's not to resume the fight; it's to pay allegiance to a higher duty. "The Master of the revels despises us all for vagrants and peddlers of bombast, but my father, James Burbage had the first license from Her Majesty to form a company of players, and he drew from poets the literature of the age. We must show them that we are men of parts. Will Shakespeare have a play. I have a theater. The Curtain is yours."
I still get chills reading it. Dammit, Cee, you cow.
And don't get me started on the repressed little priest who is blowing kisses by the end of the play. Don't even go near the magnificence of Judy Dench's Elizabeth. I'm watching the bloody thing now, dammit.
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Date: 2003-12-15 03:15 pm (UTC)I still get chills reading it. Dammit, Cee, you cow.
And don't get me started on the repressed little priest who is blowing kisses by the end of the play. Don't even go near the magnificence of Judy Dench's Elizabeth. I'm watching the bloody thing now, dammit.