Something Old, Something New: Pride and Prejudice on Screen

McFarlane provides an informed and revealing background to the screen adaptations of Jane Austen's novel. He points out that: 'Pride and Prejudice is basically serious in its approach, and it is concerned with major issues, but its being so doesn't make it less immense fun.' McFarlane discusses the moral universe of Austen's narrative, the film and television adaptations of the novel and the new screen version by Joe Wright as the best so far.