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God saved the Queen
Hans 2022-09-12 20:40:21
Produced by HBO, the story of the virgin queen is not so much history as it is the lace of history. The 4-hour film tells the story of the Queen and Anjou, Leicester, and Essex. She is a woman, but first of all, she is the king of England, so she had to give up her marriage with Anjou in the face of politics, and had to force Leicester to accept her not. The reality of possibly marrying him, had to choose him to die when Essex would waywardly challenge the Council; but she was a woman, and even though she was a king in the first place, she was still a woman. Later people are more concerned about her lace news, why she is single, her armada, her great achievements, because she is a woman, so it is like fireworks, bright, but not eternal. Helen's lines are very solid. My favorite part is the Queen's farewell to Anjou, the inner monologue at the dock. I read it back and forth several times, and I felt moved: "I grieve and dare not show my discontent. I love and yet I'm forced to seem to hate. I do yet dare not say I ever meant. I seem stark mute yet inwordly do prate. I am and I'm not. I freeze yet I'm burned. Since from myself another self I turn. My care is like my shadow in the sun. It follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, stands and lies by me, does what I have done. Or let me live with some more sweet content, or die. And so forget what love I meant." and "We are both prisoners of the times." So sane, so sad.
Extended Reading
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Sir Francis Walsingham: I think the French make better acquaintances than friends.
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[Elizabeth is visiting Mary Stuart secretly]
Mary Queen of Scots: You were not announced.
Queen Elizabeth I: I am not here.