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Is anyone else as nervous about Elizabeth: The Golden Age as I am? I'm not a costuming expert by any means, but what I've seen is bothering the heck out of me, especially some of the stuff in the image gallery.
I'm also very bothered by the director saying that the part is written as dealing simultaneously with the Spanish Armada (1588) and Elizabeth's "realization" that she was too old for love and children. It seems to have escaped his attention that Elizabeth was fifty-five at the time of the Armada, well past childbearing age, and that many scholars believe she never married because she saw the disaster a husband could bring to a queen regnant in her cousin Mary Stuart's fiasco of a reign.
Opinions?
I'm also very bothered by the director saying that the part is written as dealing simultaneously with the Spanish Armada (1588) and Elizabeth's "realization" that she was too old for love and children. It seems to have escaped his attention that Elizabeth was fifty-five at the time of the Armada, well past childbearing age, and that many scholars believe she never married because she saw the disaster a husband could bring to a queen regnant in her cousin Mary Stuart's fiasco of a reign.
Opinions?
