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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
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On and off
For those of us who love our Jane Austen adaptations, the coronavirus quarantine has been the best of times and the worst of times. The...
Deborah Yaffe
May 7, 2020
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Tuning in to P&P
Last week’s online premiere of a new musical version of Pride and Prejudice, streamed for free by Streaming Musicals, drew a more than...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 16, 2020
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More Austen for the quarantined
Just in case last Friday’s live-on-tape streaming version of a Pride and Prejudice musical hasn’t slaked your thirst for Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 13, 2020
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Replenishing the larder
At this point, roughly three weeks into All-American Shelter at Home, you -- the average Janeite -- have probably watched, or re-watched,...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 9, 2020
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Emma again
Actor/playwright Kate Hamill has cornered the market on energetic, quirky theatrical adaptations of classic literature – Vanity Fair,...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 2, 2020
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Eighty years on
The year that began yesterday will not bring us any important Jane Austen anniversaries: The bicentenaries of her death and of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 2, 2020
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Fragments of news, news about fragments
The Janeite word of the moment, it would appear, is “fragment.” * Last week, Jane Austen’s House Museum launched an urgent appeal for...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 27, 2019
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Christmas at Pemberley
The family-friendly Christmas show is a staple of local arts companies. Every December, the main stage in the regional theater near me is...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 6, 2019
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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
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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 4, 2018
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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 16, 2018
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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 2, 2018
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