At 19:15 17/04/2006, you wrote:
Is this the period du jour or what! I think so! HBO(which I don't subscribe to) is airing a miniseries about the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth I, starring Helen Mirren, this Saturday Has this been seen in the UK yet?
Yes, but my comments are unprintable, as liberties, as usual, were taken with the facts. And I like my historical films about real people, if purporting to be the real thing, to at least look something like the portraits, even if it doesn't matter to other viewers.
Also novelist Philippa Gregory has a novel coming out in Sept in the UK(The Last Boleyn)about a relative of the Boleyns during the time of Elizabeth I(not Lettice Knollys)whom I'm not sure is based on a real Boleyn descendant or not. This book will be published later in the US as "The Boleyn Legacy"
I am reading her book on Elizabeth "The Virgin's Lover". I suppose it's not bad, as a work of fiction, but i am not keen on her view of history.
There is always some Tudor book or whatever in the pipeline somewhere and I've bought or read most of them I think!
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