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1. Why is Ben Jonson followed and arrested at the beginning of the film? What
happens to manuscripts? Ben is arrested and followed because he have
Shakespear`s manuscripts, which were a heritage. This manuscripts were hidden
chest, set on fire
2. Why does Edward (17th Earl of Oxford) help Ben Jonson? What does
Edward ask him?
he saw his comedy, saw John's potential, but his political views did not
satisfy many people. he asked him to put his plays under his own name
3. What do we know about Essex and Southampton?
They want to achieve by their own efforts that there should be a real
successor and a suitable person on the throne who deserves the crown.
Essex wanted to regain the right to the throne. Edward's young friend, Henry
Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, is pledged to support Essex but Edward
warns him against any rash action and that any move they make has to be managed
carefully to avoid civil war.
4. Who is William Cecil? Is he loyal to Queen Elizabeth?
the Queen's primary adviser. I think this situation is twofold, because he helped the
queen, but did a lot behind her back. The Cecils have secretly been planning to
solve the succession crisis by offering the crown to Elizabeth's cousin, King James
VI of Scotland; the idea of a foreign king inheriting the crown of the Tudors angers
enough nobles that they begin to muster support for Essex to claim the throne
when Elizabeth dies.
5. How does it happen that Edward lives in Cecil’s house? Is Cecil
interested in it?
. After the elder Earl of Oxford's death, the teenage Edward is entrusted as a ward
to William Cecil and must write his plays secretly to avoid his guardian's ire. Cecil
gave him many teachers. but it seems to me that he was not interested in it. he
was only interested in his own benefit to the Edward
6. What is the relationship of Elizabeth and Edward? Why does Edward
merry Ann (Cecil’s daughter)?
During this time, Edward kills a spying servant who had discovered his plays.
William Cecil covers up the incident but forces Edward into a marriage with his
daughter, Anne. However, Edward is infatuated with the queen and, after a brief
time living on the continent, he begins an affair with Elizabeth.
7. How does it happen that Will Shakespeare is considered the author of
“Henry V”? Why and how does he blackmail Edward? How does the
director of the movie show Will?
Ben asked him to act like a playwright. he blackmails Edward because
he knows that Edward is the author of these plays and has threatened to
tell people if Edward does not give money to build a theater. he is an
extremely nasty man who loves fame, money, women.
8. How does it happen that Elizabeth gives an order to execute Essex?
(Describe the whole situation) What happens to Southampton?
Robert lied to the Queen that Essex was negotiating with Philip of Spain
and promised to replace all of Catholic Ireland. The queen accused Essa
of treason. Edward realized that it was Robert's fault. .Edward and Essex,
seeking to reduce Cecil's influence and to secure Essex's claim to succession,
decide to force their way into the palace, against Cecil's wishes. Edward writes the
play Richard III in order to incite hatred against Cecil and to summon a mob of
Essex's supporters. Simultaneously, he would gain access to Elizabeth by sending
her Venus and Adonis. The plan is set to fail when a bitter Ben, angered by what
he perceives as his own inadequacy as a writer and Shakespeare's unearned
success, betrays the plan to Robert Cecil by informing him that Richard III will be
played as a hunchback, a reference to Robert Cecil's own deformity. The mob is
stopped at the Bridge, and Robert Devereux and Henry surrender in the palace
courtyard when the soldiers fire on them from the parapet. Edward nevertheless
visits the Queen in a private audience to beg her to spare Henry. Elizabeth agrees
to spare Henry, but insists that Edward remain anonymous as the true author of
"Shakespeare's" works. Henry is released while Essex is executed for his treason.
9. Who rules England after Elizabeth dies? What an unexpected surprise
does Robert Cecil have?
After Elizabeth's death, James of Scotland succeeds as James I of England and
retains Robert Cecil as his primary adviser.
10. What is the role of Ben Jonson? Who is the true author of all the
works ascribed to William Shakespeare?
On his deathbed, Edward entrusts a parcel full of his writings to Ben to
keep them away from the royal family. Ben at first refuses the task and
confesses to Edward that he betrayed him to the Cecils. In an
unexpected heart-to-heart between the two playwrights, Edward admits
that, whenever he had heard the applause for his plays, he had always
known they were celebrating another man but that he had always wanted
to gain Ben's approval, as he had been the only one to know that he had
been the author of the plays. Ben admits that he considers Edward to be
the 'Soul of the Age' and promises to protect the plays and publish them
when the time is right.

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