Tudors and Stuarts on Film

Historical Perspectives

Edited by

SUSAN DORAN AND THOMAS S. FREEMAN

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors

1 Introduction: It's Only a Movie Thomas S. Freeman

2 A Tyrant for All Seasons: Henry VIILon Film Thomas S. Freeman

3 Saints and Cinemas: A Man for All Seasons Peter Marshall 4 Anne of the Thousand Days Glenn Richardson 5 Lady Jane Grey on Film Carole Levin

6 From Hatfield to Hollywood: Elizabeth I on Film Susan Doran

7 Lady in Waiting: Young Elizabeth Tudor on Film fudith Richards 8 Kapur's Elizabeth Christopher Haigh 9 Mary Queen of Scots (1971) John Guy 10 The Armada, War and Propaganda in the Cinema Will Coster

11 Elizabeth: The Golden Age: A Sign of the Times? Vivienne Westbrook 12 Shakespeare in Love: Elizabeth I as Dea ex Machina Brett Usher

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13 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex and the Romanticization of Elizabethan Politics 190 Paul E. J. Hammer 14 Oliver Cromwell and the Civil Wars 204 fohn Morrill

15 The Unfilmed Oliver Cromwell 220 David L. Smith 16 Winstanley 232 Christopher Durston 17 Why Don't the Stuarts Get Filmed? 246 Ronald Hutton

Notes 260 Index 290 List of Illustrations

1 The cartoon - which is all that survives - of Hans Holbein's iconic portrait of King Henry VIII 31 2 Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) weighs his conscience under the watchful gaze of Henry VIII (Robert Shaw) 47 3 Genevieve Bujold played a striking Anne Boleyn in Charles Jarrott's Anne of the Thousand Days 61 4 Two versions — each reflecting the fashions of the time when the film was made — of the doomed couple, Lady Jane Grey and Lord Guildford Dudley' 77 5 In Fire Over England Flora Robson conveys a mixture of pensiveness, personal loss and resilience that characterizes her pre-war portrayal of Elizabeth 89 6 In this fanciful scene from Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) cavorts with her ladies in an anachronistic manner 107 7 The coronation of the queen in Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth. The traitorous Duke of Norfolk (Christopher Eccleston) is on Elizabeth's left 123 8 Mary, Queen of Scots (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lord Henry Darnley (Timothy Dalton) embark on one of the most disastrous marriages of the early-modern period 137 9 Patriotism rewarded. Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) knights Geoffrey Thorpe (Errol Flynn), a fictitious stand-in for Francis Drake 151 10 Dame Judi Dench as a regal Elizabeth in John Madden s historical romance Shakespeare in Love 179 x List of Illustrations

11 Revealed here are the unspoken gender hierarchies embedded in the film treatment of the relationship of Queen Elizabeth and Robert, Earl of Essex 191 12 Alec Guinness (Charles I) and Richard Harris (Oliver Cromwell) pose side by side in Ken Hughes's Cromwell 205 13 Kevin Brownlow's Winstanley used mainly amateur actors and most unusually focused on scenes of everyday life in early-modern England 233 14 Nell Gwyn (Anna Neagle) and Charles II (Cedric Hardwicke) sublimate their carnal desires with a hearty meal in Herbert Wilcox's Nell Gwyn 247

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