Middlemarch

Middlemarch - by George Eliot - Classic Victorian Full-Cast Drama - cheops
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Middlemarch is a novel by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans). It was first published in 1871 to 1872. It is set in the 1830s in Middlemarch, a fictional provincial town in England, based on Coventry. Widely seen as Eliot's greatest work, it is considered by many scholars to be one of the most important novels of the Victorian era.

In Middlemarch George Eliot gives us a portrait of provincial life in Victorian England that has never been surpassed.

Wit, irony, pathos and brilliant insight into human nature colour every strand of plot and every beautifully drawn character. Foremost among these and Dorothea Booke, passionate to use her spirit and talent in a wider world than that typically afforded to women in the 1830s; Casuabon, the dry, jealous academic; Doctor Lydgate, who dreams of pioneering research in medical science; spoilt, pretty Rosamond Vincy who sees as 'a man whom it would be delightful to enslave'.

The novel centres on the marriages of Dorothea and of Lydgate, and on the web of relationships that connects us to each other. While eagerly awaiting the next part of the Middlemarch serial in 1872, the Spectator critic declared that 'Middlemarch bids more than fair to be one of the great books of the world'...

Originally broadcast as twenty 15-minute episodes over four weeks. This recording was derived from the four once-weekly omnibus editions and contains all of the the episodes in their entirety.

Four episodes of 70 minutes each.

With:
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Robert Glenister
Caroline Martin
Tom Goodman-Hill
Candida Benson
Richard Dillane
Laura Doddington
Martin Hyder
Karl Johnson
Nick Fletcher
Sally Dexter
Roger Allam
Ron Cook
Rachel Atkins
Ekizabeth Garvie
Katherine Igoe
Matthew Marsh

Dramatised by Judith Adams and Produced/directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.