🎧 Tudor Box Set Binge: Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth
🎧 Not Just the Tudors • 30m
If you are planning your television viewing over the holidays, especially if you are looking forward to bingeing on the best Tudor dramas and classic film depictions of the era, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb has a few personal recommendations of movies and TV series for you to re-discover this festive season.
And in the second part of the podcast, she casts an eye over the 1998 Shekhar Kapur film Elizabeth, which starred an Oscar-nominated Cate Blanchett as the eponymous monarch. It was undoubtedly dazzling to look at, but how did the film stand up as historical fact?
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