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going for the obvious "let her paint an inch thick" subject line
I don't know whether I will ever actually see Mary, Queen of Scots or The Favourite, but I am enjoying this thing where suddenly everyone is thinking about early modern queens:
The Real Story Behind Margot Robbie’s Wild Queen Elizabeth Makeup costume drama, tudor stuff, early modern grab bag, the renaissance is not for wimpssorry
but I have no thoughts about the Mary, Queen of Scots trailer beyond the voice in my head yelling "NOBODY TOLD ME ADRIAN LESTER WAS IN THIS ( Read more... )question: am I a masochist?
I ask because the Folger Shakespeare Library dropped a link to this podcast interview with Craig Pierce and Shekhar Kapur, where they talk about creating the new TV show Will, into my inbox this morning ( Read more... )Nonsuch
V&A acquires earliest picture of Henry VIII's lost palace of Nonsuch
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/dec/09/v-and-a-acquires-earliest-picture-henry-viii-lost-palace-nonsuch
The palace ( Read more... )Tudormania; posh British actors
I started reading this article expecting it to be one of those finger-wagging pieces about how the sheeple just like escapism and fancy dresses, and was pleasantly surprised. It has a little bit of that ("At this moment, what we want from our relationship with a national past is this: to draw the curtains, shut out the noise of the world, and put ( Read more... )confirmation?
So…the last couple of trips I've made to the bookstore and library have resulted in running across several books that seem to be arguing that Princess Elizabeth was really attracted to Thomas Seymour? Like, are we doing that again? Because I really don't want to be doing that again, dude was a child molester. I mean, I am no historian, so I can ( Read more... )…well, this is niche.
From Buzzfeed: 21 Things Only Kids Who Grew Up in the 1590s Will Understand
http://www.buzzfeed.com/richardo433a0877f/21-things-only-kids-who-grew-up-in-the-1590s-will-1hide
6. Having *that friend* who was secretly ( Read more... )on the subject of Perkin Warbeck
I was searching for information about Tudor petticoats on the internet (like you do), and happened upon the fact that Mary Shelley wrote a novel about Perkin Warbeck.
How did I not know this before?
It is apparently available on Project Gutenberg Australia:http://gutenberg*giggle*
I am entirely too amused by the fact that in the credit sequence for Wolf Hall, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Harry Lloyd got a title card all to themselves, seeing as they were both in "Human Nature/Family of Blood."faces of the dead
Top ten historical forensic facial reconstructionshttp://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art520745-the-top-ten-historical-forensic-facial-reconstructionsRead more... )