ELIZABETH

CAST
Elizabeth I – Cate Blanchett
Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I, her adviser – Geoffrey Rush
Duke of Norfolk – Christopher Eccleston
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester – Joseph Fiennes
Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s principal adviser – Richard Attenborough
Queen Mary Tudor – Kathy Burke
Earl of Sussex – Jamie Foreman
Earl of Arundel – Edward Hardwiche
Alvard de la Quadra, Spanish Ambassador – James Frain
Monsieur de Foix, French Ambassador – Eric Cantona
Mary of Guise – Fanny Ardent
Duc d’Anjou – Wincent Cassel
CREW
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Produced by Alison Owen, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan
Written by Michael Hirst
Director of Photography – Remi Adefararasin BSC
Production Designer – John Myhre
Editor – Jill Bilcock
Costume Designer – Alexandra Byrne
Original Music by David Hirschfelder
VOCABULARY (used in the film)
Martyr Act of Uniformity = prescribes the use of the
Heretic Book of Common Prayer in the services of the
Catholic Church of England
Protestant consent
Repugnance fragmentation
Place somebody upon the throne to relinquish
To condemn allegiance
To conspire, conspiracy, conspirator to abide
Treason to act upon one’s conscience
Humble servant righteous
Consummate (actress) to be in league with somebody
Death warrant to renounce (heresy)
To uphold (catholic faith) to embrace (the true faith)
To massacre, butchery ill-timed
To be enraptured precipitously
Degenerate (state) to fornicate
Standing army to indispose
Munitions undiminished (affection)
To covet to tear the soul apart
Suitor to reclaim
To garrison to jest with somebody
Overwrought to deprive of
Emissary to absolve, to be absolved
Reinforcement assassination
To abate (the French pride) to be overthrown
Pulpits conciliatory (gestures)
Traitor to flinch from (being blamed)
To end up on a spike to be implicated
Anointed sovereign to harbour
Lady-in-waiting to torture