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“To do good small work for Middlemarch and great work for the world”
This is the intention of the ambitious young Doctor Lydgate as he takes up his position at Middlemarch’s new hospital. Elsewhere in town, Dorothea Brooke, seeking a purpose to her young life, finds herself drawn to the elderly, but scholarly, Edward Casaubon. Soon both find their cherished idealism tested by the demands of marriage and society…
Set during the political upheavals of 19th Century England, Middlemarch is an epic story of love, politics and frustrated passion.
Special Features• The Making of Middlemarch
• An additional 30 minutes (in 5.1 Surround Sound) of the original music composed by Stanley Myers and Chris Gunning. Compiled and digitally edited by David Maurice.
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This is a re-packaged version of the BBC's 1994 television adaptation, screenplay by Andrew Davies, of George Eliot's masterly novel set in the fictitious town of Middlemarch, Loamshire, during the early part of the 19th century. It has all the hallmarks of that golden period when the BBC did the great literary classics proud, with high production values, fine ensemble acting and a readiness to let a sweeping narrative take its proper course. The novel is very much concerned with sometimes complex personal relationships set against a background of social and political change. Of these, the key one turns out to be that between the ambitious and progressive but financially inept Dr Tertius Lydgate, married to a beautiful but shallow and spoilt wife, and Dorothea Brooke, a young woman of grace, nobility and intelligence, initially married to an older man of little human warmth. Douglas Hodge and Juliet Aubrey are outstanding as Lydgate and Dorothea and there is valuable support from a large cast which includes Robert Hardy, Michael Hordern and Patrick Malahide. The 2-disc set includes 'The Making of Middlemarch', more interesting than usual with such material, and an additional 30 minutes of the original music score by Stanley Myers (who sadly died during the production period) and Christopher Gunning. The drama is shown in its original episode format.
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The only reason I can see why the sumtuous settings and costumes of this excellent adaptation did not take us by storm like Pride and Prejudice is because it has no simple love story. The lovers here make mistakes. They love too well or not wisely and they marry or not for more complex reasons and other pressures than their own desires...like the rest of us, like in the real world. We all yearn for a sure love that can sweep away all social and personal obstacles and make us happy.
This is not a fairy tale but it does hold a mirror up to nature. We have all met the characters here, the prigs, the users, the iron will that often goes with ignorance, the idealists that seem to get no good from their selflessness. Even in our post religion world it goes hard to see virtue go unrewarded and cruelty unpunished.
Put these characters next to simpering Elizabeth and her screeching mother and swaggering (though delicious) Darcy, and you will see them for the shallow stereotypes they are.
Watch this when you are feeling strong and confident, not just looking to be amused, and it will reward you with something more interesting to say than ooh did you see the wet shirt, and will add to your wisdom.
This is not a fairy tale but it does hold a mirror up to nature. We have all met the characters here, the prigs, the users, the iron will that often goes with ignorance, the idealists that seem to get no good from their selflessness. Even in our post religion world it goes hard to see virtue go unrewarded and cruelty unpunished.
Put these characters next to simpering Elizabeth and her screeching mother and swaggering (though delicious) Darcy, and you will see them for the shallow stereotypes they are.
Watch this when you are feeling strong and confident, not just looking to be amused, and it will reward you with something more interesting to say than ooh did you see the wet shirt, and will add to your wisdom.
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