Rebooting Clueless: The Musical
Almost five years ago, I saw the off-Broadway production of Clueless: The Musical and found it a disappointingly pallid version of the...
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The Line of Thought
. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 16
Jane Austen universe(s), Part II
If you spend your days reading Jane Austen novels and consuming Jane Austen adaptations and talking to fellow Jane Austen fans and...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 28
Austen the agreeable
Ask Janeites about their favorite author’s political and social views, and you’ll often hear arguments that boil down to this: Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 10
Janeite madeleine
For Jane Austen fans, few pieces of music are as instantly recognizable as the Mozart-esque piano concerto that accompanies the credit...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 7
P&P Barbie
The summer’s biggest movie, Greta Gerwig’s delightful and touching Barbie, knows women well—really, really well. The proof? Mr. Darcy...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 31
Jane Austen universe(s)
In the world of Jane Austen fanfic--whether on page, stage, or screen--there are, it sometimes seems, no new ideas. Jane Austen with...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 6
P&P down on the farm
Earlier this year, the off-Broadway 59E59 Theaters hosted a one-man show about the afterlife of Pride and Prejudice’s villainous Mr....
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 22
Text and subtext
These days, some thirty years after the literary critic Edward Said first offered a post-colonial reading of Mansfield Park, the idea...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 19
Using up the leftovers
Before leaving on vacation, I always try to clean out my refrigerator—no point in coming home to sour milk and moldy vegetables. Since I...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 15
Being Mr. Wickham, again
Over the past four years, the British actor Adrian Lukis has spent a lot of time being Mr. Wickham. In late 2019, Lukis – who, as...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 11
Trouble at Lyme
Mr. Darcy, aka Colin Firth, is riding a white horse when he comes home to Pemberley, aka Lyme Park, in the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation...
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