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Title: Elizabeth R / Glenda Jackson tribute View count: 22100 Rating: 4.928571 (56 ratings) Description: Due to copyright claim, I've had to replace Green Day's 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' with something else, or else lose the video. I am highly dissapointed about this, so I sought to find something which kept the 'dream reality over mortality' idea that I had for this montage. With the Tchaikovsky score selection, Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' is a fitting analogy. Thanks for all your comments and hopefully one day, the original version can be restored! CONCEPT Born in the September of 1533, Elizabeth grows into womanhood with the shadow of her mother's downfall hanging over her. She determines that she will not suffer from the legacy of her parents and so, by gaining absolute power, she will assure her immortality and transcend the darkness to become divine. Alas, September comes around every year of her reign, until the old wounds reopen. Harkening back to her father's actions against her mother when dealing with Mary Queen of Scots, and the world encompassing aftermath, she is forced to confront the reality of mortality.... ON MONSIEUR'S DEPARTURE by Elizabeth I, Queen of England I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done. His too familiar care doth make me rue it. No means I find to rid him from my breast, Till by the end of things it be supprest. Some gentler passion slide into my mind, For I am soft and made of melting snow; Or be more cruel, love, and so be kind. Let me or float or sink, be high or low. Or let me live with some more sweet content, Or die and so forget what love ere meant. Tags: elizabeth, tudor, glenda, jackson, Author: AdArmand |
