The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 14.2357  Monday, 15 December 2003

From:           Richard Burt <
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Date:           Friday, 12 Dec 2003 09:48:30 -0500
Subject:        Renaissance Related Film and TV Shows

  The Girl With a Pearl Earring will be released in January.

Next year (no date yet) on BBC
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot -
Four-part drama about Mary Queen Of Scots
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Mary%2C+Queen+of+Scots&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>,
James I
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/james_i_king.shtml> and
the Gunpowder Plot
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=The+Gunpowder+Plot&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>.
Written by award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Jimmy+McGovern&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>,
its stars include Robert Carlyle
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Robert+Carlyle&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>,
Clemence Poesy, Emilia Fox
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Emilia+Fox&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>,
Richard Coyle
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Richard+Coyle&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>,
Daniella Nardini
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Daniella+Nardini&recipe=all&scope=all&tab=allbbc>
and Paul Nicholls
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/characters/joe_w_fact.shtml>.

Recently on BBCi:
Henry VIII ITV1 Sunday October 12
by: MadMaggie <http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/U216713> 12 October
03

A new take on Henry VIII is it possible? Certainly after Philippa
Gregory's "The Other Boleyn Girl" I was ready to view the whole sorry
saga with new eyes nor was I disappointed. Helena Bonham Carter was a
bewildered, beautiful and finally, totally wronged queen. The technique
of having Henry, played with consummate mastery by Ray Winstone, lurking
behind pillars eavesdropping, there but not there, was brilliant.  A
whole galaxy of stars played in this