![]() ![]() ![]() When it is adapted into a fresh medium in another age the danger is that poor decisions are made in removing elements judged to be straining the audience’s credulity. This latest version of The Woman In White on BBC 1 in the Sunday evening slot (itself by now a classic for the classics) has just finished. To what degree ought literature from the past be moulded to present tastes and mores when it is adapted for the broad viewership of mainstream tv channels?Ī classic of literature endures because it has captured elements profound enough to be relevant across time. The BBC is rightly famous for its adaptations of works of English literature and returns to the same favourites periodically on a menu that contains plenty of good things still to be tackled. Making points about the script of a television drama series that is done, dusted and broadcast is justifiable in relation to productions to come and I’m interested in an evergreen issue –how much period reality can the contemporary viewer bear? What happened to Marian’s moustache? Angela Graham considers the implications of modern adaptations of classic novels looking at the recent BBC version of Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White, she asks if the profound and unusual themes of Victorian texts are watered down for the 21st Century sensibility. ![]()
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