Tudors and Stuarts on Film

SUSAN DORAN is Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of many books and articles on the Tudor period, including Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I, Elizabeth I in the British Library Historic Lives series and Mary Queen of Scots: An Illustrated Life. THOMAS S. FREEMAN is the Research Editor for the British Academy John Foxe Project and he is affiliated with the University of Sheffield, UK. He is co-editor (with Sue Doran) of The Myth of Elizabeth and (with Thomas F. Mayer) of Martyrs and Martyrdom in England, c 1400-1700. He is the co-author (with Elizabeth Evenden) of Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'.

• Notes on the ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: T.FreemanA Tyrant for All Seasons: Henry VIII on Film: T.FreemanSaints and Cinemas: 'A Man for All Seasons': P.Marshall'Anne of a Thousand Days': G.RichardsonLady Jane Grey on Film: C.LevinFrom Hatfield to Hollywood: Elizabeth I on Film: S.DoranLady in Waiting: Young Elizabeth Tudor on Film: J.RichardsKapur's 'Elizabeth': C.Haigh'Mary Queen of Scots': J.GuyThe Armada, War and Propaganda in the Cinema: W.Coster'The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex' and the Romanticization of Elizabethan Politics: P.Hammer'Shakespeare in Love': Elizabeth I as Dea ex Machina: B.Usher'Elizabeth: The Golden Age': A Sign of the Times; V. WestbrookOliver Cromwell and the Civil Wars: J.MorrillThe Unfilmed Oliver Cromwell: D.Smith'Winstanley': C.DurstonWhy Don't the Stuarts get Filmed?: R.HuttonIndex.