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The Mayor of Casterbridge.(Video Recording Review)
3 vols. color. 368 min. David Giles, BBC Prods. in assoc, with Time Life Films, dist. by Acorn Media, 801 Roeder Ave., Suite 700, Silver Spring, MD 20910; 800-999-0212; 301-608-2115. 1978; 2003 release. ISBN 1-56938-612-9. $59.95; DVD ISBN 1-56938-611-0. $59.95. F
Originally aired in 1978 on the BBC, this seven-part adaptation of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge finds veteran British actor Alan Bates in his prime as tragic Michael Henchard. Writer Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective) channels Hardy's fatalism as he traces the downward spiral of Henchard, successful businessman and mayor of the Wessex town of Casterbridge, following the unexpected return after 18 years of the wife and daughter he had ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 11, 2003 700+ words
...lost again when it airs THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE. This three-hour A&...up to the premiere of THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, A&E will rebroadcast...at 8:00pm EDT/PDT. THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE stars Ciaran Hinds (Road...
- Works of Thomas Hardy: The Mayor Of Casterbridge: Chapters 15 - 24
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Hardy, Thomas January 1, 1963 700+ words
Hardy, Thomas Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Mayor Of Casterbridge: Chapters 15 - 24 Chapter XV Because Elizabeth-Jane...immediately becomes jealous. He feels that it is his place as mayor to initiate such occasions. Consequently, Henchard...
- Hardy goes West: The Claim, the Western, and The Mayor of Casterbridge.(Movie...
- Magazine article from: Literature-Film Quarterly McGlamery, Gayla S. January 1, 2007 700+ words
...2000), inspired by The Mayor of Casterbridge (1885-86). (2) Hardy...interesting. With The Claim, The Mayor of Casterbridge moves West from Wessex in...famously argued about whether The Mayor of Casterbridge attains the stature of classical...
- Works of Thomas Hardy: The Mayor Of Casterbridge: Chapters 37 - 45
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Hardy, Thomas January 1, 1963 700+ words
...01-1963 The Mayor Of Casterbridge: Chapters 37...stop briefly in Casterbridge. The town excitedly...Farfrae, as mayor, tells him he...he is gone and Casterbridge can return to...also discuss the mayor and his wife...
- Works of Thomas Hardy: The Mayor Of Casterbridge: Chapters 25 - 36
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Hardy, Thomas January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Mayor Of Casterbridge: Chapters 25 - 36 Chapter...women. Why did she come to Casterbridge in the first place if not to...he was when Susan arrived in Casterbridge. A strange woman is in the...
- "... Among the ruins": narrative archaeology in The Mayor of...
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel Tandon, Bharat December 22, 2003 700+ words
...1: 38). This can be seen most clearly in The Mayor of Casterbridge, the novel in which Hardy makes the most substantial...human agency. It has been widely noted that The Mayor of Casterbridge is the most overtly archaeological of Hardy's...
- The Mayor of Casterbridge.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Moxley, Melody A. July 1, 2002 700+ words
THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE.Thomas Hardy. 1886/2001. Read by Pamela Garelick. 10-1.5 hour tapes. Blackstone Audio. #2862. 0-7861-2100...
- Hardy's THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE.(Thomas Hardy)(Critical Essay)
- The Explicator THOMPSON, J. B. January 1, 2001 700+ words
In Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, there is a scene in which Michael Henchard forces "Poor Abel" Whittle to go to work without his trousers "to teach [him...