Originally Posted by
Nathan
I'm not looking for historical accuracy there, but I am looking for it here. I need to know how much this show is leading me astray from understanding how my people lived and dressed in that era. Costume dramas are best when they get the costumes right, though.
Well, I remember a Wuthering Heights adaptation of a few years back, that finally "got" all the West Indies slavery references in the novel. (They're in Jane Eyre too, by the way) Very historically accurate, but it caused a modest uproar: Heathcliff black!? How dare they!
[B]Doch dyn plicht en let de lju mar rabje
Frisian saying: do your duty and let the people gossip[/B]
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