Upstart Crow (TV Series)
The Play's the Thing (2016)
Liza Tarbuck: Anne
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Quotes
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John : Queen Elizabeth didn't chop Mary's head off herself, you daft wurzel. She were topped at Fotheringhay.
Anne : Granddad is right, about the beheading. Queen Liz never done it.
Will : Yes, my love, I am aware of the facts, but as a dramatist, I take the view that a fat man with an axe saying, 'Close your eyes, love', thwack, isn't quite as compelling theater as frigid Liz bitch-slapping her cutesome Caledonian cuz Mary in a bit of queen-on-queen action.
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Will : [quoting from his latest work] 'Blood red will be thy shroud!' And then a nobleman rushes in, 'majesty, I beseech thee, must not a queen this murder do.'
Anne : Shouldn't that be, 'A queen must not do this murder'?
Will : Well, yes, it should, but I always think a sentence sounds better if you mix up the words a bit. It's one of my best tricks.
Susanna : Sounds really try-hard to me.
Will : Or, put more poetically: 'to me sounds, hard try really'. See? Much better.