What a relief that, following the discovery of Richard III's remains, filmmakers and television companies appear to be turning their attention to other subjects besides the 16th-century English court.
What a relief that, following the discovery of Richard III's remains, filmmakers and television companies appear to be turning their attention to other subjects besides the 16th-century English court.
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by Rebecca McQuillan
For years it was the Tudors this and the Tudors that, starting with the films Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth in 1998, Alison Weir books on Elizabeth, Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scots (not a Tudor but an important supporting actress in the overall tableau), then a bad case of Tudoritis from the author Philippa Gregory, who produced her six-book Tudor series, including The Other Boleyn Girl, between 2001 and 2008. Elizabeth: The Golden Age hit cinemas in 2007, at the very moment epic serial The Tudors started purveying its soapy version of Henry VIII's life, while David Starkey produced not one but two television documentaries on Henry, as well as further serials on Elizabeth, Henry's six wives, Edward VI and Mary I. Overkill doesn't quite cover it.
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In praise of - anything but The Tudors.
What a relief that, following the discovery of Richard III's remains, filmmakers and television companies appear to be turning their attention to other subjects besides the 16th-century English court.
For years it was the Tudors this and the Tudors that, starting with the films Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth in 1998, Alison Weir books on Elizabeth, Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scots (not a Tudor but an important supporting actress in the overall tableau), then a bad case of Tudoritis from the author Philippa Gregory, who produced her six-book Tudor series, including The Other Boleyn Girl, between 2001 and 2008. Elizabeth: The Golden Age hit cinemas in 2007, at the very moment epic serial The Tudors started purveying its soapy version of Henry VIII's life, while David Starkey produced not one but two television documentaries on Henry, as well as further serials on Elizabeth, Henry's six wives, Edward VI and Mary I. Overkill doesn't quite cover it.
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