I am looking at the Giacometti Elizabeth play and one thing I find funny so far, is Elizabeth's view of Leicester. I am only a 1/3 of the way through this play, so her feelings about him might be different in the parts I haven't read yet, but so far they are not positive.
I have gotten so used to seeing Leicester as the man she loves. She never looked at him in negative in our readings so far, but here, her love interest has been moved to Essex, and she speaks of Leicester as a traitor.
This happens in the play when she gets a letter from him, where he speaks like a king. She is offended that he thinks he is so "high up the ladder", or in her terms, "eyes upwards towards the clouds."
That is not really significant, but I thought it sounds a little funny and out of place from what we've read and seen of their relationship. But this play is quite different in its depiction of Elizabeth from most works we've looked at so far, and this is just a simple example of that.
Aleks,
ReplyDeleteIt is rather interesting to see Elizabeth portrayed in another light, isn’t it? Like you said, we are so use to Leicester being the leading man of Elizabeth’s life; that it is odd that he is the one she dislikes! That is why it is so hard to paint a true picture of Elizabeth, at least for me. There are so many different points of views, interpretations, and stories written about her. For the most part, the ones we have covered in class have overlapped. Now, we have something totally new that makes you stop and wonder why this author decided to portray Elizabeth that way. It is amazing how there are so many different ideas on what people though Elizabeth’s life was like and who she was and what she did.
~Sarah