Pride and Prejudice (1995)

"PERSUASION" (1971) Review

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

As many ファン 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 ファン of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel, "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" and its numerous テレビ 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 読書 numerous 記事 about the novel and its adaptations, I have noticed that many have labeled the Bennet family as members of the middle-class または the upper middle-class in Regency England. And it finally occurred to me that many of these ファン 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 ファン 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 次 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...