But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.
I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.
I think I was born in Elizabethan times.
Seance to renaissance. So it begins
Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.
I like to say 'Reign' is the '24' of the pre-Renaissance. I think we're going to take a lot of liberties with history, as well as extend it over a longer period of time.
