"NORTHANGER ABBEY" (1986) Review

Most movie and 텔레비전 adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels are either highly acclaimed 또는 perhaps even liked 의해 팬 and critics alike. I can only think of two 또는 three adaptations that have been dismissed them. And one of them happened to be the 1986 A&E Network/BBC adaptation of Austen’s 1817 novel, "Northanger Abbey".

Adapted 의해 Maggie Wadey, "NORTHANGER ABBEY" follows the experiences of seventeen-year-old 고딕 novel aficionado, Catherine Morland, who is invited 의해 her parents’ friends, Mr. and Mrs. Allen, to accompany them on a visit to Bath,...

"MANSFIELD PARK" (1983) Review

Long before Patricia Rozema wrote and directed her 1999 adaptation of "Mansfield Park", Jane Austen’s 1814 novel, the BBC aired its own adaptation some sixteen years earlier. This one came in the form of a six-part miniseries and is regarded 의해 many Austen 팬 as the definitive screen version of the novel.

"MANSFIELD PARK" told the story of Fanny Price, the oldest daughter of a former Royal Navy officer, who is sent 의해 her parents to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle-in-law, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at their estate called Mansfield Park, during the early...

"PERSUASION" (1971) Review

This adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1818 novel turned out to be the first of the old Jane Austen 텔레비전 adaptations that the BBC aired during the 1970s and 80s. Produced and directed 의해 Howard Baker, and adapted 의해 Julian Mitchell; this two-part miniseries starred Ann Firbanks and Bryan Marshall.

As many 팬 of Austen’s novel would know, ”PERSUASION” told the story of Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of a vain and spendthrift baronet, who finds herself reunited with her former finance, a Naval officer of lesser birth named Frederick Wentworth. Eight years...

SOCIAL CLASS AND THE BENNET FAMILY IN "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

Considering how long I have been a 팬 of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel, "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" and its numerous 텔레비전 and movie adaptations, I am surprised that I have never considered something about its heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, and her family. Ever since I have been 읽기 numerous 기사 about the novel and its adaptations, I have noticed that many have labeled the Bennet family as members of the middle-class 또는 the upper middle-class in Regency England. And it finally occurred to me that many of these 팬 were in error....

"CONSEQUENCES OF LUST"

All of Jane Austen's completed novels were first published during the Regency decade between 1810 and 1819, leaving present-day 팬 to celebrate the 200th anniversaries of each novel during this decade (2010-2019). Among those novels are "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE", now celebrating its bicentennial anniversary and "MANSFIELD PARK", which will be doing the same 다음 year.

"PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" told the story of five daughters of an English landowner named Mr. Bennet, whose wife is desperate to find husbands for them all. The novel was written from the viewpoint of Mr. Bennet's...