Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, and so on. Watch any number of period dramas and certain authors pop up again and again. (While STRANGER THINGS is set in the period of the 1980s, it’s unlikely anyone would refer to it as a “period piece”.)īut where to begin when facing the infinite storytelling possibilities represented by history?
Typically, it means a project set in a time period that’s older than recent memory.
