Period dramas a popular pastime: The distant past serves as a setting for drama and romance

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Period dramas a popular pastime: The distant past serves as a setting for drama and romance

Nat Dolan

Nat Dolan

Palace interior period style CR Sigmund on Unsplash
The luxurious settings and high-society high jinks are a drawcard for period dramas, along with a dash or two of romance [Image: Sigmund on Unsplash]

Nat Dolan takes a look at the fascination with period dramas and what they offer, as well as shows from more recent time periods included in the genre

What is it that makes period dramas so popular – is it purely the aesthetic elements? The fancy costumes and large ballrooms? The high-society fantasy, Scottish bagpiper CR Lucrezia Carnelos on Unsplash , In the series Outlander, nurse Claire travels back in time from the 1940s and finds herself in 18th-century Scotland [Image: Lucrezia Carnelos on Unsp