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Rufus Sewell
British actor (born )
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| Born | Rufus Frederik Sewell () 29 October (age&#;57) Hammersmith, London, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years&#;active | –present |
| Spouses | Yasmin Abdallah &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;Amy Gardner &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;Vivian Benitez &#; (m.&#;)&#; |
| Children | 2 |
Rufus Frederik Sewell (; born 29 October [1]) is a British actor. In film, he has appeared in Carrington (), Hamlet (), Dangerous Beauty (), Dark City (), A Knight's Tale (), The Legend of Zorro (), The Illusionist (), Amazing Grace (), The Holiday (), The Tourist (), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (), Judy (), The Father (), and Old ().
On television, he has appeared in Middlemarch (), Arabian Nights (), Charles II: The Power and the Passion (), John Adams (), Eleventh Hour (–), Zen (), The Pillars of the Earth (), Parade's End (), Victoria (–), The Man in the High Castle (–), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel () and The Pale Horse (). He currently stars in the Netflix series The Diplomat.[2]
On stage, he originated the role of Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia () and the role o
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Breaking my own rule of never watching a film adaptation before reading its source text, I watched Brian Helgeland&#;s A Knight&#;s Tale long before I read Chaucer&#;s The Knight&#;s Tale.In my defence, I had forgotten much of the film&#;s content by the time I got around to reading the Canterbury Tales, and I hope to demonstrate that it would not have mattered if I did. Now that I have re-watched the motion picture as a medieval literature student and a screenwriter with a particular penchant for adaptations, I have recognised an unexpected medieval-ness behind Helgeland&#;s boldly modern text, and I have re-weighed the efficacy of transmission of medieval literature through popular culture.
If you have not heard of or deigned to watch A Knight&#;s Tale, here is the official trailer:
Either way, I hope you will read on as I grapple with a) Helgeland&#;s anachronistic and &#;generic translation [that turns] high culture into popular culture&#; (Forni ); b) the accepted view of popular culture as low culture; and c) our tradition and authority complex when it comes to medieval and medievalist texts.
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