Posts Tagged ‘BBC Pride and Prejudice 1980’

Here are My Pride and Prejudice’s all time top 10 pictures of the ‘oddity’ that is Mr Collins. In no particular order and from all the major screen and TV adaptations we have Tom Hollander (2005), David Bamber (1995), Malcolm Rennie(1980), Melville Cooper (1940) and Guy Henry (Lost in Austen).

Almost everyone ‘knows’ that Elizabeth and Mr Darcy have dark hair, and that Jane and Mr. Bingley are blonde-ish. The idea is so ingrained that Jennifer Ehle dyed her eyebrows and left her hair unwashed for her audition for the 1995 series. Colin Firth’s ginger tendencies, as described by Andrew Davies, were one reason that [...]

Here are My Pride and Prejudice’s all-time Top 10 Darcy screenshots for your drooling pleasure. We have Matthew Macfayden (2005), Colin Firth (1995), David Rintoul (1980), Laurence Olivier (1940) and Elliot Cowan (Lost in Austen 2008.) They’re in no particular order, so we’ll leave it up to you to rank them according to your preferences!

Here are My Pride and Prejudice’s all-time Top 10 screenshots of Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth Bennet, ‘as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.’ From the major Pride and Prejudice screen adaptations, we have images of Keira Knightley (2005), Jennifer Ehle (1995), Elizabeth Garvie (1980) and Greer Garson (1940.)

Jane Austen’s cast of characters is huge, but her novel is nothing if not concise. Some minor characters, like Colonel Fitzwilliam and Georgiana Darcy, serve to further important plotlines, while others provide interesting character contrasts with the protagonists. Most do both. The most significant exceptions to this rule are Mr. and Mrs. Hurst. They are [...]

One 1813 review of Pride and Prejudice was glowing in its appreciation of Jane Austen’s new novel, praising the characters as well-rounded and plausible save for one exception: Mr Darcy. Darcy’s ‘abrupt’ transformation from fashionable indifference to ‘ardent lover’ didn’t ring true according to the anonymous critic, reprinted in Pride and Prejudice: A Sourcebook (Routledge [...]