This is, of course, why so many "period" films and TV shows fail to convince: the costume and props people clothe everyone in synchronous fashions, and place them among settings from that year's Ideal Home magazine (or "Perfick Hovel", to which my own ancestors subscribed).
Yes! See also exhibitions about 'Shakespeare's England' which are filled with material culture from ca. 1600. Where are the old books? The inherited furniture? John Aubrey is good on the (c17) present world filled with old things -- and our jarring contemporaneity.
This is, of course, why so many "period" films and TV shows fail to convince: the costume and props people clothe everyone in synchronous fashions, and place them among settings from that year's Ideal Home magazine (or "Perfick Hovel", to which my own ancestors subscribed).
Mike
Yes! See also exhibitions about 'Shakespeare's England' which are filled with material culture from ca. 1600. Where are the old books? The inherited furniture? John Aubrey is good on the (c17) present world filled with old things -- and our jarring contemporaneity.
Love this piece. (Son of Sam takes me into the moodscape of Russian Doll.)
Thanks, Jacqueline. Yes, Son of Sam is very Russian Doll. Mood and time.