"Period piece" is a phrase that is used to describe creative works which involve a time period in history.
Famous quotes containing the words period and/or piece:
“Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Herod-like slaughter of the innocents.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)