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Poem-fic: "Master Tallis Speaks" and "...at Will's grave" by mistress_tallis (The Tudors)
mistress_tallis knows more than I could ever hope to about the English composer Thomas Tallis, and she wrote "Master Tallis Speaks" long before Michael Hirst ever included the shy, unkempt young man with the sweet smile on his Showtime bodice-ripper historical drama, The Tudors. It's Tallis decades after Henry VIII's reign, near the end of his life, but it is also perfectly in keeping with his portrayal on the show.
"...at Will's grave" is set in episode 1.07. Not many people have written from Compton's pov yet (me, I've been too nervous to try), and he's a character we've only gotten to see through his interactions with an array of very different people, but this is just how I imagine him to be: eloquent but not fanciful, frank, generously blaming no one except himself. Both poems are elegant, perceptive, filled with understated emotion.
mistress_tallis knows more than I could ever hope to about the English composer Thomas Tallis, and she wrote "Master Tallis Speaks" long before Michael Hirst ever included the shy, unkempt young man with the sweet smile on his Showtime bodice-ripper historical drama, The Tudors. It's Tallis decades after Henry VIII's reign, near the end of his life, but it is also perfectly in keeping with his portrayal on the show.
"...at Will's grave" is set in episode 1.07. Not many people have written from Compton's pov yet (me, I've been too nervous to try), and he's a character we've only gotten to see through his interactions with an array of very different people, but this is just how I imagine him to be: eloquent but not fanciful, frank, generously blaming no one except himself. Both poems are elegant, perceptive, filled with understated emotion.