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4. Life without Elizabeth

Shakespeare's Restless World by BBC

Apr 19, 201213:46Society & Culture

A portrait was painted in 1571 to justify and celebrate Elizabeth I's position in the Tudor succession. Yet by the 1590s, with no direct Tudor heir, this image had very different implications in Shakespeare's Restless Wo...