Serious and valid though the historical criticisms that can be made of this series are, I personally value this dramatisation because it vitalises the era. I believe that a strictly accurate representation would have been completely alienating. It is delusory to believe that merely because of OUR position in history we have perfect perception of the past: the realities of Tudor England would repel us. However, they living at the time, perceived themselves as modern, 'cool' and glamorous. I believe that the value of the Tudors series is in representing how the Tudors 'probably' saw and felt about themselves. As a musician this is much more interesting and useful to me than absolute accuracy. The real woman that was Anne Boleyn, for example, must surely have impacted those around around her far more powerfully than period paintings of her seem to convey to us today. (All the women had small mouths and no breasts did they?) I believe that it is useful to have a dramatisation that allows us to connect with the impact she must have had. None of the albeit excellent previous dramatisations of Henry VIII have so eloquently expressed and explained to the modern human the likely dynamics that must have been operating during the Tudor period: as they have throughout human history and still are today.
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