Adaptations 13/25

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

Even sandier

Sanditon, the much-hyped TV adaptation of the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is probably not getting a second season,...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 11, 2020

Deck the halls

After the year we’ve had, we’re all going to deserve a holiday-season treat. And it looks like the Janeites among us will be getting one....

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 4, 2020

Yum

Twenty-five years ago today, the BBC’s beloved adaptation of Pride and Prejudice began airing on UK TV. By the time the show made its way...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 23, 2020

I scream, you scream. . .

We Janeites love our Jane Austen movies. Can’t get enough of ‘em! Want more! And more! Or so you’d conclude from recent news: * Plans for...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 20, 2020

Zooming Mr. Darcy

Dispiriting as the last six months have been, Janeites have encountered some notable silver linings in the gloomy cloud cover. We’ve been...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 2, 2020

New and/or improved

By now, we would all be happy to consign 2020 to the trash bin of history. Let’s reboot! Remake! Recycle and replace! Alas, another four...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 26, 2020

Parched

I haven’t set foot in a movie theater in five months. (March 7. Multiplex up the road from here. The new adaptation of Emma, a pretty...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 9, 2020

The Watsons, reborn

Among the Janeite casualties of pandemic lockdown was the planned West End production of The Watsons, Laura Wade’s much-praised...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 5, 2020

Sanditon reprieve?

The past six months have been no walk on the beach for passionate fans of the TV adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 28, 2020

The Jane Austen Guide to Quarantine

For many of us, coronavirus quarantine has proved to be the perfect moment to reread Jane Austen. (Although, really, is there ever a bad...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 21, 2020

Color-coding

Better late than never: Although it appeared more than a month ago, I’ve only just stumbled across a cogent and fascinating analysis of...

Deborah Yaffe

May 10, 2020

On and off

For those of us who love our Jane Austen adaptations, the coronavirus quarantine has been the best of times and the worst of times. The...

Deborah Yaffe

May 6, 2020