Adaptations 14/25

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

Tuning in to P&P

Last week’s online premiere of a new musical version of Pride and Prejudice, streamed for free by Streaming Musicals, drew a more than...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 15, 2020

More Austen for the quarantined

Just in case last Friday’s live-on-tape streaming version of a Pride and Prejudice musical hasn’t slaked your thirst for Austen...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 12, 2020

Replenishing the larder

At this point, roughly three weeks into All-American Shelter at Home, you -- the average Janeite -- have probably watched, or re-watched,...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 8, 2020

Sisterhood is powerful

I was not enthusiastic about Sanditon, the ITV/PBS series based on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death. Although the show,...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 5, 2020

Tripping

Plans are apparently progressing for Trip, a gay-themed Pride and Prejudice update set on the New York gay mecca of Fire Island and...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 29, 2020

Silver linings

There’s an upside to everything, apparently – even a global pandemic that threatens to sicken and perhaps kill millions while tanking the...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 18, 2020

Immortal, beloved

Twenty-five years ago this summer, we Janeites flocked to movie theaters to see a brand-new modernization of Emma, set among affluent...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 11, 2020

Emma again

Actor/playwright Kate Hamill has cornered the market on energetic, quirky theatrical adaptations of classic literature – Vanity Fair,...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 2, 2020

Emma fashionista

The new feature-film adaptation of Emma opened this past weekend, but not, alas, in my neck of the woods, where we proles must wait until...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 24, 2020

The big event

We’re just days away from one of the year’s big Janeite events: Friday’s U.S. opening of the new feature film adaptation of Emma, a week...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 17, 2020

Have another one

Just when you thought it was safe to put some cookies in the oven, toss a few snowballs, and top your hot chocolate with a dollop of...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 16, 2020

Bewitching

Search engine optimization and web analytics are topics about which I know very little. (OK: nothing.) So when Google sends me its...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 13, 2020