#period drama book

[laurenillustrated]

handsome, clever, and rich.

Emma Woodhouse poster design for fun! Based on the 2020 film.

[dogzcats]

EMMA. (2020): from book to screen

[inafieldofdaisies]

The Decameron (2024) | Season 1, Episodes 6 and 8 Parallels | Lou Gala as Neifile and Karan Gill as Panfilo

“I can't seem to die without you.”

[queen-boleyn]

REBECCA FERGUSON as Elizabeth Woodville [1/∞] The White Queen — 'In Love With The King'

[mrewanmcgregor]

EWAN MCGREGOR as COUNT ALEXANDER ROSTOV

E01 . A Master of Circumstance

A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW | 2024

[comicaloverachiever]

She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (illustration by Hugh Thomson) Pride and Prejudice (1995) dir. Simon Langton

[escapismsworld]

“Even when I'm alone I have real good company —dreams and imaginations.”

-Anne with an E🦋🌿

[insane-in-the-membranee]

Some period pieces that I've come to enjoy 📜

Any more recommendations?

[wolfhalledits]

'WOLF HALL' RECAP — 1x03 'Anna Regina' air date — 4 February 2015 dir. Peter Kosminsky

In 1531, King Henry VIII has proposed a bill which will make him the head of the Church in England and allow him to marry Anne Boleyn. However, his plans are met with a series of complications.

[danielaeditsthings]

Put a finger down if you worked with a composer friend for several months to create a Bridgerton-inspired cover of "That Way." Then you hired musicians to play it for you. Then you spent another month doing research, asked several friends to help you translate, designed some 3D audio, and hired your colorist friend so your neurodivergent brain could "feel" the character's emotions more... And you did this all for an edit. Because you are insane and can't ever make anything simple..... Oh just me..... Damn.

This edit was created before S3 PT2. So it is Polin's story up until S3 PT1.

[queen-paladin]

disclaimer: yes, I am complaining about cheating in media. Because, yes, writers have the freedom to create what they want but if the morality in creation is free for all forms of media, but no piece of art is exempt from criticism, and that includes criticism on personal moral grounds. I betcha if I said Harry Potter is good, actually, everyone on here would flood my blog telling me I am wrong because of the author's intense prejudice. That being said, I am criticizing cheating in fiction, If you don't like that, don't interact

So often lately I see period dramas where the husband cheats on the wife (ex. Poldark, The Essex Serpent, Queen Charlotte, The Great)...and not only do I despise the cheating trope with every fibre of my being to where I get panic attacks when I consume the media...but specifically with period dramas...

Do these writers not understand the greater implications of a husband cheating on a wife during these periods? More than just the humiliation and heartbreak in the case of a loving, good marriage just like it is today.

In the Western world, probably until certain laws were enacted in the 1900's, if a woman married a man, she was legally his property. She had no legal identity under him. She was financially dependent on him. Any wages she made would automatically go to her husband. Her children were also not legally her children- they belonged to the father. If the husband died, even if the wife was still alive, the children were legally considered orphans.

Women could only rarely gain a divorce from their husbands. In England in the mid-1800's specifically, if a wife divorced a husband she had to prove he had to not only cheat but also be physically abusive, incestuous, or commit bestiality. On the other hand, a husband could divorce a wife just for being unfaithful. Because, kids, there were sexual double standards.

Getting married was often the endgame for a lot of women during that time. Sometimes you couldn't make your own living enough- marriage was a way to secure your entire future financially, with more than enough money to get by. If you were a spinster and middle class, you could get by with a job. But if you are an upper-class lady, the one thing a lady does not do is get a job and work. So upper-class spinsters basically were dependent on their families to get by (ex. Anne Elliott in Persuasion faces this with her own toxic family). As strange as it sounded today, marriage gave them some freedom to go about since a husband could be persuaded sometimes more easily than a father and one had a different home, their servants, etc. A husband was your foundation entirely for being a part of society, and standing up as your own woman.

So if a husband cheated on a wife, that was a threat to take all of that away.

He could give a lot of money that could be used to support his wife and children to the mistress. He could completely abandon said wife for the mistress. And since the wife legally couldn't get a job as he still lived, she would be dependent on any money he would said- and that is IF he sent over any money.

He could take her to court and publicly humiliate her to get a divorce away from her (look up the separation of Charles and Kate Dickens, he would call her mentally ill and say her cooking was bad and that she was having more children than they could keep up with all while having an affair and divorcing her to be with the misteress). And even if the wife was the nicest, more proper, goodest, more rule-abiding never-keeping-a-toe-out-of-line lady in town...as a man, the law was default on his side (look up Caroline Norton's A Letter to the Queen which details exactly that, the poor woman had her earnings as a writer taken by her husband and was denied access to her children from said husband)

So yeah...even if there was "no love" between them (and anytime the wife is portrayed as too boring or too bitchy so He HaS tO cHeAt is brought up is...pretty victim blamey)

So yeah. Period drama writers, if you have the husband have an affair ...just consider the reality of these things and address them, maybe punish the husband for once (*gasp* men facing consequences for their actions?!?!!), and if not, just please find other options and other tropes and devices for once.

[estcaligo]

Please I want more of "Draconias vs Silver's family" drama

and I want Crowley to turn out to be his father

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Favorite Character in a TV-Show 2023

The Darkling in Shadow & Bone Season 2

[inafieldofdaisies]

The Decameron (2024) | Season 1, Episode 6 “A Stony Brook Away” | Lou Gala as Neifile

“What shall we do today?” “I just want to talk... about everything.”

[queen-boleyn]

#ILOVEBEINGYOURBROTHER MAX IRONS and DAVID OAKES as King Edward IV and George, Duke of Clarence The White Queen|The Storm

[mrewanmcgregor]

EWAN MCGREGOR as Count Alexander Rostov

A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW | 2024