The historical figure of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is best known for being...
Sixteenth Century
Historical costume movies & TV set in the Renaissance, Tudor, and Elizabethan eras.
We’ve snarked photos from The Magnificent Century (2011-14), aka Muhtesem Yüzyil, plenty of times...
When you think of the title character of Shakespeare’s play Othello, it seems obvious...
For some reason, Shakespeare in Love (1998) doesn’t get a lot of love in...
There is perhaps no greater feminist moment in historical costume film or TV than...
We’re a few weeks into Versailles, at least here in the states, watching on...
This is the biggie, the one that all the others are held up against. Laurence...
I’m afraid that my grasp of the French language has permanently halted at the level...
Using historical fiction as a source for movies instead of actual history is nothing...
2016 is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and this seems to be a big...