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The tone of Elizabeth comes nearer to the nihilistic relish of Jacobeans such as John Ford and John Webster than to the more sorrowful horror of the Elizabethan dramatists Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare.
In '50s movies set in Elizabethan times, of course, everybody wore big, molded, and pointy breasts with their Renaissancey garb--no flattening was permitted and certainly no exposure.
Two recent releases deal with the Elizabethan age-- Elizabeth , the bloody tale of the Virgin Queen's rise, and Shakespeare in Love , a romp through Elizabethan theater.
Victorian fashion, for example, wholly redeemed, is often treated with great respect in movies such as The Portrait of a Lady . The high hair and big bustles have been assimilated to all the other harmless customs of antiquity; they've become the equivalent of Egyptian breastplates and Elizabethan padding.
In short, the Republican House has deteriorated into a sub-Shakespearean Elizabethan revenge drama.