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Interesting titbit in the last paragraph: apparently in the Wolf Hall series based on Hillary Mantel's trilogy, the codpieces in the show weren't as big as they
by Freak_NL 3y ago
Interesting titbit in the last paragraph: apparently in the Wolf Hall series based on Hillary Mantel's trilogy, the codpieces in the show weren't as big as they ought to have been given historical evidence.
That, at least, Blackadder got right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5A55eWbiBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5A55eWbiBI
Maybe a tad more modest (season 2 might have gotten it exactly right, although the codpiece seems to have been getting less popular by then during the reign of Elizabeth I).
- OJFord 3y agoAnd, talking of comedies, over-sized in Upstart Crow. (The play at least, I can't recall if there was the same joke in the TV series - certainly not recurring in their regular costume.)
- notso411 3y agoIt was meant to but it was snubbed by the beeb as inappropriate. Mitchell was very annoyed about this, mentioned it on his blog somewhere (or was it his wife?)
- nwatson 3y agoThere's also Season 2 of Wolf Hall itself, filming sometime soon. Maybe they'll get the codpieces right this time, but it will be an awesome series regardless.