Tudors and Stuarts on Film Historical Perspectives

by Doran, Susan; Freeman, Thomas S.

• ISBN13: 9781403940711
• ISBN10: 1403940711
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

Film can be an invaluable teaching resource. Tudors and Stuarts on Film provides analyses of films about the Tudor and Stuart period from leading historians. The accuracy of each film is assessed, and they are also placed within the context of the period in which they were made, and the influence they have had on popular conceptions of early modern England.

Author Biography

Susan Doran is Stipendiary Lecturer, Christ Church, Oxford. Thomas S. Freeman is Research Officer, History Department, University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Notes on the Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction: It's Only a Movie	p. 1
A Tyrant for All Seasons: Henry VIII on Film	p. 30
Saints and Cinemas: A Man for All Seasons	p. 46
Anne of the Thousand Days	p. 60
Lady Jane Grey on Film	p. 76
From Hatfield to Hollywood: Elizabeth I on Film	p. 88
Lady in Waiting: Young Elizabeth Tudor on Film	p. 106
Kapur's Elizabeth	p. 122
Mary Queen of Scots (1971)	p. 136
The Armada, War and Propaganda in the Cinema	p. 150
Elizabeth: The Golden Age: A Sign of the Times?	p. 164
Shakespeare in Love: Elizabeth I as Dea ex Machina	p. 178
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex and the Romanticization of Elizabethan Politics	p. 190
Oliver Cromwell and the Civil Wars	p. 204
The Unfilmed Oliver Cromwell	p. 220
Winstanley	p. 232
Why Don't the Stuarts Get Filmed?	p. 246
Notes	p. 260
Index	p. 290
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