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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

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

Jan 7, 2019

Emma, live and on film

Musical theater is an expensive art form, and fans on a budget – or those who live far from the major cities where original productions...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 3, 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 15, 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

Jul 1, 2018

Emma, the (latest) musical

Good news for those of us who can never get enough Jane Austen adaptations: Apparently, theater professionals in London and New York are...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 15, 2018

The Watsons on stage

The Watsons -- the novel Jane Austen began, probably in 1804, but never finished -- is a fascinating fragment. It’s bleak and wintry,...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 14, 2018

Here we go again. . .

Last month, the Washington Post drew well-earned Janeite derision when it published an article exploring the astonishing news that Jane...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 15, 2018

P&P game-playing

Austen adaptations, whether on stage, screen or fanfic page, all too often fall victim to an excess of earnestness – the bonnets, the...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 11, 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

Sep 20, 2017

Six books

Tomorrow marks the anniversary that we all – or, at least, all those of us who are Janeites – have been waiting for since 2017 dawned:...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 16, 2017

Jane lies in Winchester

Now that this Austen bicentenary year is in full swing, the announcements of commemorative events pegged to the July 18 anniversary of...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 30, 2017

Austen in bedlam

A few months ago, I was lucky enough to see a very enjoyable and ingenious stage production of Sense and Sensibility, performed in New...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 5, 2016