Talk:Historical novel

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• Historical Drama by dramatists like Friedrich Schiller underlies most of Romantic opera. Modern historical drama includes Cyrano de Bergerac, The Devil's Advocate, A Man for All Seasons, The Lion in Winter, Amadeus.
• that'll start y'all off... Wetman 00:50, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Why not put this in the article? After italicizing the titles, of course. Ortolan88 00:56, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Why are there examples of "living historical novelists" included in the article in the first place? There is already a link for that (List of historical novelists or List of historical novels); it seems like a list of favourites to me. That info can be moved to the list page but shouldn't be included on the main page. Stoa 18:55, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] All historical fiction is in novel-form?

It seems to me that this page is a bit confused, it would perhaps be better to distinguish between a historical novel on one hand, such as War and Peace, from the wider historical fiction genre - such as Braveheart. In usage, 'Novel' is exclusively reserved for books, while 'historical fiction' could be a film or a play or whatever. Zeth

Historical fiction redirects here to historical novel. Is that accurate? Can the term "historical fiction" only be applied to novels? I really don't think do. -Captain Crawdad 06:33, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

I had the same problem. Someone linked the film 300 to historical fiction and the redirect came out here. It seems kind of strange for the medium on which the story is told to supersede the genre that it falls under. Since I'm not the only one that this has happened to I may attempt to fill it out if I can come up with some material. Hewinsj 05:04, 5 April 2007 (UTC)