• Shakespeare's life (Valérie and Victoria)

• Historical and social context (Amélie and Marion)

• Intellectual life : great discovieres (Samantha, Pascaline, Morgane)

• Elizabethan Theatre : The Globe theatre (Rémi and Romain)

• Religious Life (Maïlis and Héléna)

• Education (Anne-Sophie and Laura)

• Marriage and customs (Marie-Athénaïs)

• Literary terms (Garance and Fanny)

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If you want to know everything on the Queen Elizabeth I, you can watch this two films by Shekhar Kapur with Cate Blanchett.  

Elizabeth (1998)

This film details the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, as played by Cate Blanchett. The main focus is the attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.

Synopsis : 

The story of Elizabeth's ascendency to the throne, the plot of the movie is full of palace intrigues, attempted assassinations and executions. The movie starts with England divided by faith, Protestant vs. Catholic. The queen, Mary Tudor has no heir and her Catholic supporters fear the succession of her half-sister Elizabeth, a Protestant. They convince the queen to have Elizabeth arrested and put in the Tower of London but the queen hesitates and eventually refuses to sign her death warrant. It is announced that the queen is pregnant but it turns out to be a tumor and she dies of it a while later. Her Catholic supporters are forced to give the throne to Elizabeth. Elizabeth's first few years are shaky as she is not versed with the art of realpolitik and "rules from the heart instead of the mind". There is also the question of her succession as she is yet unmarried and her death without heir would mean the throne falling back into Catholic hands. She has many suitors but she eventually rejects them all. And aided by Sir Francis Walsingham she manages to kill all her enemies and ascends the throne as the "Virgin Queen".

Elizabeth : the golden age (2007)

Elizabeth : the golden age is the sequel of Elizabeth. 

Synopsis : 

Two faiths, two empires, two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingham, using as a pawn Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart, who's under house arrest in the North. The trap springs, and the armada sets sail, to rendezvous with French ground forces and to attack. During these months, the Virgin Queen falls in love with Walter Raleigh, keeping him close to court and away from the sea and America. Is treachery or heroism at his heart? Does loneliness await her passionate majesty?

There are very goods films about Elizabeth the First, and Cate Blanchett is very wonderful !