[Movie Script]Elizabeth The Golden Age

                 ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE


Written by
William Nicholson & Michael Hirst




5th July 2006







    (Dialogue printed in brackets to be translated and spoken

in Spanish or German as appropriate, and sub-titled.)
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    Painted images of the Elizabethan age -
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A world divided by religious

hatred.
The new Protestant faith is

spreading.
Bodies burned on a pyre - men writhing under torture - a

momentary half-recognisable face, gaunt and staring -

    FATHER ROBERT RESTON.



                        CAPTION

              The most powerful ruler in

Christendom, Philip of Spain, has

sworn to return all Europe to the

Catholic faith.
Images of rival monarchs Philip and Elizabeth in court

paintings: stiff, formal, imperious.
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