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| Tango01 | 18 Dec 2017 9:32 p.m. PST |
…the Russian court. "So it's Sunday night and a new well-upholstered costume drama is upon us. BBC1's War and Peace opens with a soireìe of nobles in a gilded salon, all empire-line dresses and tight-cut breeches. It is St Petersburg in the summer of 1805, and Napoleon is on the march. The screenwriter Andrew Davies, who sexed up Jane Austen in the 1990s, has chunked Tolstoy's magisterial novel into six pacy episodes. So is this Pride and Prejudice in Russia? The familiar ballroom heartbreaks with a few battles thrown in? For a historian of 18th-century Britain and a devotee of Jane Austen like me, so much is familiar about aristocratic Russian life, but so much is strange and even outlandish…"
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| GurKhan | 20 Dec 2017 7:51 a.m. PST |
This program was on in early 2016: I'm a bit puzzled as to why the article's showing up now. |
| Old Wolfman | 20 Dec 2017 8:03 a.m. PST |
Put some zombies in there,and see what happens. ;^) |
| Tango01 | 20 Dec 2017 11:58 a.m. PST |
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gets started with Flintloque.