[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: MOVED from MAIN - "sequels" to the classics

[Heidi Tandy]

>>  Carol, who still has grave reservations about fanfic and none
>>  whatsoever about *good* historical novels
>
> a_svirn:
> By "good" you mean those with a right bias? Because you have to admit
> that Shakespeare's history plays are pretty good – as works of art,
> that is. Richard III is certainly a masterpiece.


Which leads to the slightly twisty questions posed by Josephine Tey's 
The Daughters of Time, in which a bedridden London detective 
investigates the destruction of the reputation of Richard III by a 
series of Tudor kings and queens, culminating in Shakespeare's play 
where Richard was nothing but evil.

You could say that the Tey novel is fanfic, and it is fanfic-esque, but 
it really is meta in narrative form. The author has a theory and she 
tells it via a novel.

Heidi