And Spain was driven by a religious ideology in the Roman Catholic faith with its Inquisition determined to stamp out diversity of thought in it's wake. It's Hapsburg King, Philip II either directly or through his Hapsburg relations lay claim to about half of western Europe and about 3/5 of the North and South American continents combined. Spain was the big kid on the European block in 1587 when this story takes place.
England did not have the big navy and the empire it boasted of in later centuries. Although he overacts in spots in Fire Over England, even with that it comes natural because the character he's playing is an impetuous youth. Sir Laurence Olivier once said that he thought his work before Wuthering Heights markedly inferior to that after because it was William Wyler who taught him the art of film acting and the difference between that and the stage.
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