| Title |
Middlemarch [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
[London] : BBC Worldwide ; [Pyrmont, N.S.W.] : Roadshow Entertainment [distributor], c2011. |
| Pagination etc. |
2 videodiscs (DVD) (ca. 463 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Contents note |
"R-B01912-9." |
| Based on the novel by George Eliot. |
| Originally broadcast in 1994. |
| Includes special features: The making of Middlemarch ; An additional 30 minutes of original music composed by Stanley Myers and Chris Gunning. |
| Creation Note |
Directed by Anthony Page ; produced by Louis Marks. |
| Performer note |
Juliet Aubrey, Robert Hardy, Douglas Hodge, Michael Hordern, Peter Jeffrey. |
| Summary Note |
Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals. The major themes are the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform and education. Eliot contrasts the courtships and marriages of Dorothea and Casaubon, with Rosamond and Lydgate to show how their self-delusions and expectations of courtship are shattered by the day-to-day difficulties of married life. The characters project onto their partners the qualities they seek in marriage. This masterpiece of English literature presents the ambiguities of moral choice, uses imagery of darkness and light, reveals class differences and the effect of education and study on an individual's life. The two major life choices of marriage and vocation govern the narrative. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification: PG. |
| Language note |
In English with subtitles in English SDH. |
| Subject |
City and town life -- England -- Drama |
| Young women -- Drama |
| Young women |
| City and town life -- England |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
| Television mini-series |
| City and town life -- England -- Drama |
| Young women -- Drama |
| England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century |
| England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama |
| England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Television mini-series. |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Television mini-series. |
| Added Author |
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 |
| Page, Anthony, 1935- |
| Aubrey, Juliet, 1969- |
| Hardy, Robert, 1925- |
| Hodge, Douglas |
| Corporate Author |
BBC Worldwide Ltd |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F MIDD |
