Adaptations

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

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 21

Crossover artist

Jane Austen is the ultimate crossover artist, with an unchallenged position in both literary studies and popular culture. (Hey, didn’t...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 18

Thriller

Are you feeling sad that you won’t be able to join the Jane Austen 250th Birthday festivities in England next year? Fear not! You can...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 31

Three plus one

Pity the poor Austen blogger. The minute you write , “ No fewer than three Austenian adaptations may be making their way to our TV...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 21

New material

In case you feared running short of new Jane Austen-themed television, you can stop worrying: No fewer than three Austenian adaptations...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 5

Coming attraction

Apparently, I am not the only person who never tires of romcoms in which a Jane Austen fan’s romantic life starts to mirror Austen’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 29

Sounds familiar

By now, we’ve had so many movies in which a youngish, female Jane Austen fan discovers that her modern-day romantic life is somehow mixed...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 19

Inferiority complex

In 2007, Colin Firth told the London Sunday Times that he was completely unsuited to his most famous role , which he had played twelve...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 5

High flying

The reviews are in for the latest Jane Austen-themed costume drama, and they’re raves: “Completely captivated.” “Work of genius.”...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 13

The Shirt, unveiled

Sometimes launching a museum exhibition is a complicated process, as catalogs are researched, international loan agreements negotiated,...

Deborah Yaffe

May 16

Mad about the Regency

The third season of Bridgerton, Netflix’s smash-hit Regency romance series, launches today. To mark the occasion, a professor at...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 22

Snooze

Earlier this year, I had the occasion (read: an excuse) to rewatch several of the feature-film adaptations of Emma. I reconfirmed the...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 8

Pemberley-at-sea

Although Jane Austen never set sail, her ties to seafaring, forged through the experiences of her two sailor brothers, were close and...