Hmmmm…
adjusts monocle
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Are there any good quick reference materials for those of us who don’t know too much about the Regency era? Or will we really need it?
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I believe @David_Falkayn came up with a few titles before, perhaps he would be kind enough to share?
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is supposed to be very accurate. Pity I got so bogged down in it I couldn’t finish.
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Some of the books I’ve been using as reference material have been:
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Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods as a very readable overview of all aspects of daily life in that period.
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Any of Jane Austen’s work, obviously
But one should never let lack of familiarity with the period discourage spirited play. As MalevolentPixy so eloquently put it in the BDH postmortem:
It’s going to be a wacky ride, so even just binge watching Sense and Sensibility or Bleak House counts as plenty of prep for this adventure. No actual preparation or familiarity with the era is required.
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See also Jane Austen Fight Club:
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Googles…
Ah. Afraid I’ve seen precisely as many episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs as I have Downton Abbey.
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Since when did that ever stop us?
To hell with the actual character, this is a a Socialist Poet who resents Society and is a bit of an anti-social loner who goes off his own. But he’s actually a decent chap.
(he’s also either a repressed homosexual or suffering depression or both, but skipping those bits would be fine).
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IT’S ALL HAPPENING AGAIN!
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Since both take place a century or more after the Regency/Jane Austen period, I wouldn’t worry about it.
If the game features Charles Darwin retweeting Émile Zola’s J’accuse, I won’t be surprised.
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Ah, but this is the Charybdian regency. Actually, last I heard, this place had a President.
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The very best modern interpretation of Pride and Prejudice:
When Jane Austen went Bollywood.
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I know what I’m watching this weekend. Thanks for mentioning that!
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Watched it again not too long ago and it’s held up really well. The woman who plays the mom is a comic genius. That’s always the plum part in any Pride and Prejudice.
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Oh my, I see some potential suitors are already being uncivilized
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The videographer is hiding behind decorative grasses…are we going to be seeing him in the next installment of the Darwin Awards?
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For those of us who have only come a close to Regency Era as the Georgette Heyer books on your mate’s bookshelf…
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