Eternally Mr. Darcy
Pity poor Colin Firth. His IMDB page lists more than seventy-five film and TV credits in a career stretching back thirty-five years, and...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 10, 2019
A tourist in Bath
Last Thursday, James McAvoy, the excellent Scottish actor who played Jane Austen’s crush Tom Lefroy in the 2007 film Becoming Jane, paid...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 7, 2019
Kids in America
Over the weekend, I went to see Clueless: The Musical. It made me miss Clueless: The Movie. Which was probably not the intended effect....
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 1, 2018
Never too much Jane
Sometimes it feels as if only die-hard Janeites are still thinking about Jane Austen. And other times – like these past few weeks --...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 3, 2018
Still trending
Only two months ago, I announced that second-order Austen adaptations -- adaptations of adaptations of Austen novels -- were now...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 30, 2018
Unpersuaded
Pride and Prejudice isn’t just Jane Austen’s most famous and popular novel. Of all her stories, it’s also the best suited to modern-dress...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 16, 2018
Austen karaoke
Recently – OK, it was two weeks ago – I found occasion to mention an old journalists’ joke: that three examples of a phenomenon...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 12, 2018
Davies does Sanditon
For the Jane Austen world, it qualifies as blockbuster news: Revered screenwriter Andrew Davies, the man behind the iconic 1995 BBC...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 2, 2018
Trend-spotting
We journalists like to joke that once you have three examples of something – avocado toast! Suburban sex-toy parties! -- you can write a...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 21, 2017
The factory at work
The Jane Austen adaptation factory never seems to stop churning out fresh material. By now, the proliferating combinations and...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 8, 2017
Brokeback Pemberley
In my experience, non-Janeites are blissfully unaware of the vast universe of Austen fanfic in all its magnificent, explicit, pansexual...
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