Eleanor Of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England
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Eleanor Of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England
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When Richard I was a prisoner of the German Emperor after failing to recapture Jerusalem in the Third Crusade, it was Eleanor who was tireless in raising the King’s exorbitant ransom, and Eleanor who travelled to Germany to hand it over and be reunited with him. His successor, the Yorkist King Edward IV, came there for the hunting, as did his brother Richard III, during his coronation progress in 1483, and his rival and successor, Henry VII, first sovereign of the House of Tudor.
So I thought the idea of having an extraordinarily sexy and charismatic Becket would be doing justice to Anouilh's original intentions. Having concentrated mainly in your work on the Middle Ages and Tudor periods, how far into recent history would you travel? A generation or two ago, few historians were content to be merely storytellers, but the wheel of fortune has turned. She visited the cottages of the wretched villagers, comforting them in their grief at being deprived of the sacraments of the Church, and listening with feeling to their accounts of the miseries they had endured. Moreover, in an age in which history is often perceived to be 'dumbed down', I feel strongly that we can all learn from a study of the past.History has some great stories to tell, but you have to piece them together carefully; you cannot just let rip your imagination; you must keep to the constraints.
The action takes place over one Christmas in the 1180s, when Eleanor is summoned from prison to join her feuding husband and sons at Chinon for the festival. Was there anything in the writing of The Life of Elizabeth I that made you naturally turn to Eleanor as your next subject?After DUKE WILLIAM has left, Eleanor strums her cittern and plays a troubadour song, as her three DAMSELS (the NUNS of the previous scene) dance gaily around the garden, playing beribboned tambourines. Firstly, there is very little of this kind of fiction about nowadays; I was told recently it was a very unfashionable genre when I tried to publish a novel about Lady Jane Grey.
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