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Period Dramas are often accused of anachronisms. Period Literature can be guilty too.

Whether we're reading the Booker prize books or watching Downton Abbey, we all love to catch out an author in an anachronism. Philip Hensher, in a piece on this year's Booker longlist, found problems in several books, and took particular issue with the...

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Period Dramas are often accused of anachronisms. Period Literature can be guilty too.

Whether we're reading the Booker prize books or watching Downton Abbey, we all love to catch out an author in an anachronism. Philip Hensher, in a piece on this year's Booker longlist, found problems in several books, and took particular issue with the...

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Period Dramas are often accused of anachronisms. Period Literature can be guilty too.

Whether we're reading the Booker prize books or watching Downton Abbey, we all love to catch out an author in an anachronism. Philip Hensher, in a piece on this year's Booker longlist, found problems in several books, and took particular issue with the...

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Book Review: Making Masterpiece, Rebecca Eaton

For more than twenty-five years and counting, Rebecca Eaton has presided over PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre, the longest running weekly prime time drama series in American history. From the runaway hits Upstairs, Downstairs and The Buccaneers, to the hugely...

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Hollywood adapts Madame Bovary in Normandy

Hollywood adapts Madame Bovary in Normandy

“Downton Abbey” thesp Laura Carmichael, Olivier Gourmet and Logan Marshall-Green have joined the cast of “Madame Bovary,” which begins shooting Monday in Normandy, France. Mia Wasikowska stars in the title role along with Ezra Miller, Paul Giamatti, Rhys...

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Persuasion BBC 1971

Locations and set design in Emma (2009): bts video clip

About 2 minutes into the clip, note what is said about the house reflecting Emma's personality: the sense of "flow", "grace" and "ease". The steadycam follows the characters "from room to room" with "fluidity" creating a sense of space. See the sequence...

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Andrew Davies 15 years later

The video is part of the making-of for the release on Pride & Prejudice on dvd. Interesting tidbits: The adaptation was on the whole well received by the Jane Austen Society Notice the three BAFTA awards behind Andrew Davies Jane Austen bigger than John...

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The costumes in Emma (2009): bts video clip

learn more about the adaptation link (bbc.co.uk)

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