Adaptations 9/25

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

What lies beneath

In popular culture, Jane Austen is the avatar of buttoned-up romance – love stories featuring heroines concealed under long skirts and...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 4, 2022

Beach trip

If you prefer your Jane Austen adaptations to be set in the Regency, it’s shaping up to be a good year: Sanditon’s second season has...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 28, 2022

Love hurts

The sting of rejection is an emotion whose nuances Jane Austen understood well – whether the agony of the jilted Marianne Dashwood (“Good...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 24, 2022

Bonnetfest

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away – in other words, in mid-2019 -- I wrote about a traveling exhibition of costumes from Jane...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 17, 2022

Of castles and chakras

When NBC announced last month that it had changed the name of its new Regency-themed dating show from Pride and Prejudice: An Experiment...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 7, 2022

Courtin' time

Finally, NBC has released a trailer for The Courtship, the upcoming reality-TV show featuring Austen-era costumes and dating rituals, and...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 21, 2022

Persuasion, with soap

As Valentine’s Day dawns, all across the Netflix-speaking Janeite world, we are waiting impatiently for the new film adaptation of Jane...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 14, 2022

Sanditon, now with less sex

Sanditon, the PBS-ITV series based ever-so-loosely on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, has been an acquired taste from...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 10, 2022

Break out the popcorn

March is shaping up to be a big month for Janeites who like Austen-related TV and aren’t too picky about its relationship to anything...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 7, 2022

SandiCon no more

They could not be defeated by a host of implacable foes: mediocre reviews, low viewership numbers, bottom-line-driven corporate...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 27, 2022

A wet shirt and a centennial

The venerable British Broadcasting Corporation turns 100 this year, a century after the launch of its first daily radio service. To mark...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 20, 2022

Ending on a high note

This past year, we can probably all agree, hasn’t been one of the planet’s best. But there’s still time to end 2021 on a happier note –...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 27, 2021