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Creating the Legend
Works of fiction began to appear instantly after Elizabeth's death-some with only a minimal dash of history in them, and others with none at all. By the late seventeenth century, Elizabeth's love life became a subject of obsession in England and even more in France. These romances in turn inspired nineteenth-century operas such as Gaetano Donizetti's Roberto Devereux (1837), as well as an endless stream of modern movies and pulp fiction.
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