CFP: Upstairs and Downstairs: The British Historical Costume Drama on TV

Upstairs and Downstairs: The British Historical Costume Drama on TV (from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey) The recent popular success of “Downton Abbey” calls for a renewed examination of such earlier BBC/ITV/Masterpiece Theatre serialized period dramas as “Upstairs Downstairs,” “The Pallisers,”and “The Forsyte Saga,” among others, that have aired (and have been repeated)since the 1970s. We also want to examine how more recent dramas like “Downton Abbey” engage with these earlier production..