December 28, 2020 at 12:25 pm
Think of a Regency-set period drama and you might expect a restrained and genteel affair; tea will be sipped and gossip might be whispered. Viewers may be invited to peer into panelled parlours lit by flickering candlelight, or an opulent Assembly room to watch a chaste yet highly charged Quadrille.
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Bridgerton takes this further, promising an on-screen Regency romance that feels made for the modern era. There are many playful and stylised elements; brightly lit settings and bold primary colour palettes, not to mention the string quartet arrangements of chart-topping favourites by Ariana Grande or Shawn Mendes. It is these choices made by creator and showrunner Chris Van Dusen and the team behind the new drama, explains Dr Hannah Greig, that help to translate the modern and ground-breaking nature of Georgian high society for a 21st-century audience. A historian of 18th-century Britain and the Beau Monde, Greig served as