Deborah YaffeMay 15, 2023Being Mr. Wickham, againOver 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 YaffeMay 11, 2023Trouble at LymeMr. 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...
Deborah YaffeApr 27, 2023Austen in the dreamscapeAustralians may have a complicated relationship with Britain, their one-time mother country, but no such ambivalence seems to pervade...
Deborah YaffeMar 16, 2023Back to the beachIt’s been a long road for fans of Sanditon, the PBS series based, very loosely, on the novel that Jane Austen left unfinished at her...
Deborah YaffeMar 6, 2023Writing womenAs a writer who is also a fan of period drama, I pay attention to the screenwriting credits on my favorite literary-minded TV...
Deborah YaffeFeb 16, 2023Speaking well enough to be unintelligibleA few weeks ago, the British press was suddenly awash in articles (for example, here, here and here) about the new! exciting! previously...
Deborah YaffeFeb 9, 2023The Cher ManifestoWhen Karl Marx wrote about the decadence of capitalism, he may have been imagining something like our current moment, in which a slew of...
Deborah YaffeFeb 6, 2023Hey, cupcakeLast month, noting the pending release of a Pride and Prejudice screen update entitled Townhouse Confidential, I reported, “My...
Deborah YaffeJan 23, 2023Pride & Prejudice & Real EstateSo many updated versions of Jane Austen’s novels have come my way over the past couple of decades that when I hear of a new one these...