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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
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Goodbye at last, 2020
A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 31, 2020
New Year's present
On March 2, I reported the happy news that a theatrical adaptation of Emma – written by Kate Hamill, the actor/playwright whose madcap...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 24, 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
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
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
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
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
Eighty years on
The year that began yesterday will not bring us any important Jane Austen anniversaries: The bicentenaries of her death and of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 2, 2020
Fragments of news, news about fragments
The Janeite word of the moment, it would appear, is “fragment.” * Last week, Jane Austen’s House Museum launched an urgent appeal for...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 26, 2019
Christmas at Pemberley
The family-friendly Christmas show is a staple of local arts companies. Every December, the main stage in the regional theater near me is...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 5, 2019
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