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England, My England (1995)
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A Film Within A Play Within a Film moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Simon Callow | ... | Charles II |
| Michael Ball | ... | Henry (Harry) Purcell |
| Rebecca Front | ... | Mary II |
| Lucy Speed | ... | Nell Gwyn |
| Letitia Dean | ... | Barbara Palmer (Lady Castlemaine) |
 | Nina Young | ... | Frances Purcell |
| John Shrapnel | ... | Samuel Pepys |
| Robert Stephens | ... | John Dryden |
| Terence Rigby | ... | Captain Henry Cooke |
| Bill Kenwright | ... | Bill |
| Murray Melvin | ... | Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury |
| Corin Redgrave | ... | William of Orange |
| John Fortune | ... | Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon |
| Guy Henry | ... | James II |
| Peter Woodthorpe | ... | Kiffen |
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When Pepys, the Purcells, and Pelham are climbing the stairs to view the fire, Pepys is speaking lines from his diary entry of 2 September 1666. moreGoofs:
Continuity: One shot shows a stagehand turning a winch to lift Mary Tudor when she's playing Cupid. When she's being lowered, a shot shows the stagehand turning the winch in the same direction as previously. moreQuotes:
Tony Palmer: You know what this country has become? Once we had a church built upon a rock. Now the rock has been bulldozed and with it our fame. What we're left with is a crawling underside of expediency and dishonour beholden to Brussels wherein the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain. England, my England, is shuffling about like an old tramp begging for a pair of boots at the tradesmen's entrances of Europe moreSoundtrack:
Birthday Song for Queen Mary, 1654: Come ye sons of art (No. 2) moreFAQ
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The life of the musician & court composer Henry Purcell is used to present a tongue in cheek examination of the Restoration & the Glorious Revolution. The actors in the film, led by Simon Callow as Charles II, discuss the play between scenes, but the parts they play on stage are also those that they play in the film. Very cleverly done too.