Different strokes for different folks. The Tudors are a flamboyant mob, and the period covers some spectacularly intelligent and competent women, which endears it to me. I also rather like Oliver Cromwell (I have a weakness for really competent people, hence my affection for William I, Henry II, Edward I, Edward III and so on.)
I also think that the Tudor period is the earliest in British history in which the mindset is immediately understandable to the general public. I am deeply interest in Henry V (all stemming from catching Henry IV Part 1 on the radio when 13 and wanting to know more), but getting into the religious mindset of the period is difficult and you really have to work at it.
Richard III, on the other hand, leaves me cold precisely because I had read the history and the evidence before the fiction, and therefore having made a judgment uninfluenced by it, I see Richard as being pretty incompetent.
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I also think that the Tudor period is the earliest in British history in which the mindset is immediately understandable to the general public. I am deeply interest in Henry V (all stemming from catching Henry IV Part 1 on the radio when 13 and wanting to know more), but getting into the religious mindset of the period is difficult and you really have to work at it.
Richard III, on the other hand, leaves me cold precisely because I had read the history and the evidence before the fiction, and therefore having made a judgment uninfluenced by it, I see Richard as being pretty incompetent.