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Musings on GenreMarch 14, 2021April 10, 2022

The Past is a Foreign Country: Why Do We Still Care About Period Dramas?

Who are period dramas for, and why should we care? (Note: Minor spoilers below for Season 6 of Downton Abbey) LP Hartley famously wrote in his 1953 novel The Go Between: “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” However, I first heard the line uttered in the 2020 Starz show Belgravia,…

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