The Queen Elizabeth
(Fiction, France, 1912, 54’, B/W, silent)
by Gaston Roudès, Henri Desfontaines, Louis Mercanton

Synopsis
Queen Elizabeth anxiously awaits news of the fighting between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada. Only the count of Essex, the queen’s favorite, is optimistic. To celebrate the victory, he had “The Merry Wives of Windsor” performed, introducing the playwright Shakespeare. A fortune teller presented to Elizabeth predicted great sorrow and Essex’s death on the scaffold.