I don’t claim to hit all the high points, but these are the ones that come to mind…This is part one of however many it takes to get through the book.
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Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: Bingleys and Darcys and Wickham, Oh My!
I am lumping the Bingley-Hurst clan, the Darcy-De Bourg clan (and their former dependent Wickham) together, along with their residences. Next piece or couple of pieces will be on major setpieces of the story.
Continue reading “Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: Bingleys and Darcys and Wickham, Oh My!”Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: Introduction
This is one of those topics that a lot of people have opinions about, and I am one of them. I intend to dump some thoughts about that on this blog, specifically what I would do if some insane person put me in charge of new adaptations of the novels I find most interesting. This initial post is about the ground rules I’m working from:
Continue reading “Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: Introduction”Likeable and Unlikeable Main Characters
Elsewhere on the web, there was a discussion going on about whether readers of popular fiction would tolerate an unlikeable main character, and I stuck my oar in – well, a whole galley’s worth of oars actually. I thought I would try to summarize some of my opinions here:
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