Tudor True Crime
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Drama of the Middle Class
In broader terms, i think it shows the idea that the interest is shifting from the big sr pageant of history to an idea of culture being a mirror. It's not just a sort of percolating down of high minded, ex sively procured art, but it's something that can be created by people who are let's look at the playwrights,. The glover's son, marlo, the cobbler's son. This is theatre being written by and for the rising middle classes and the artisans, the craftsmen, the citizens. So tudor life, in a way, is the apotheosis of upward mobility of certain class, consolidation of higher
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