Tudor Knowledge, Delivered Straight to Your EarsĮver want to know about work, play, drama, or music during the Tudor era? The BBC (who else?) has got you covered. Give your hands and eyes a rest, and listen to this audio version of the story. This is how we imagine the story really would have ended. The official trailer for the 1937 movie, starring Errol Flynn. Miles Hendon-er, The Prince and the Pauper It was only a matter of time before Disney got their hands on this story. So, maybe Edward didn't have the best handwriting in the world. Henry VIII did not go down in history as a Casanova, but these letters seem to show that he loved his lady. If the movie above seemed just a bit too long, this hour and a half long made-for-TV movie might do it for you. Sure, the movie is in black and white, and somehow a minor character became the top billed actor, but hey, don't knock it till you try it. By whom? Random Tudor geeks on the Internet, of course. Maybe not the list you want to be on, but here are the top 10 high profile executions of King Henry VII's reign.Īny question you could possibly have about the Tudors will be answered here. It might not be the freshest gossip, but if you want to know all the juicy tidbits about Tudor England, this site's got your covered. The Prince and the Pauper Resources Websites And hey, if the big Samuel Langhorne Clemens himself thought this was his best work, we're not gonna argue. So why get this story second-hand? Dig in and see what Twain was up to, in his own words. Even if you've never read the novel, you probably already know the story. Even if people don't read this one as often as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, the story itself has been adapted into movies, TV shows, video games, novels, and pretty much anything else that you can imagine. The Prince and the Pauper may not be as popular-or as controversial-as Twain's other novels, but it shows a different side of this author. Yonge, who wrote a book called The Prince and the Page. Twain also took the premise from Charlotte M. For instance, most of the book's historical information comes from David Hume's History of Englandand other old English histories. In fact, Twain was influenced by quite a few other authors when he wrote this novel.

If you're a Twain lover, you may not even recognize your favorite folksy author underneath all the Dickensian prose. One reason for this might be that The Prince and the Pauper is an unusual book for Mark Twain. Now, Twain himself thought that The Prince and the Pauper was the best thing he had ever written, but it's never been quite as popular as Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer( source). Published in 1881, the story of Prince Edward VI swapping places with a poor boy in 16th-century England was Twain's first foray into historical fiction. But Mark Twain was the first person to write the story that we all know and love as The Prince and the Pauper.

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