Regency era

Austen wrote hers in 1813.

It's Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy navigating the brutal economic and social pressures of the Regency marriage market.

And both are receiving highly stylized, very distinct new adaptations this winter.

The Dickens film is titled Ebenezer, directed by Ty West, starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge and Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit.

Free and direct discourse is a literary technique where the third person narrator, the voice telling the story, suddenly and seamlessly adopts the bias, sarcastic, or flawed internal tone of a specific character, usually Elizabeth Bennet.

It blends the narrator's objective voice with the character's subjective thoughts without using quotation marks or saying Elizabeth thought.

It creates this incredibly sharp cutting irony that exposes the utter absurdity of polite Regency society.

A camera cannot easily capture that blending of voices.

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So yeah, so The Witch Elias is based in Regency time.

And whenever, I guess it would be easier if I talked a little bit about my writing process because I don't plan my books.

So I never plan.

What did that limitation put into the magic? Because sometimes it's about finding the boundaries of things and then hitting up against it.

And that's where the interesting bits of character or plot come out.

And I also, obviously, we have the season of the witch and we have the debutante season in Regency time.

And I was like, oh, I like the idea that you have the seasons and the seasons.

So that meant that we couldn't have a big built display, so we're going to be using other ways of creating that world, apart from the furniture on stage, and that's where we thank...

the antique shop in town, because they have donated, well, loaned us beautiful Regency England-style furniture for it.

But I'll let Mel talk about what she's got planned for making that atmosphere through our projections.

Yeah, cover it all off if you can for us, Mel, particularly the work you've done with the antique shop and getting the furniture for this.

I have had several suggestions to cover this miniseries here on The Rumor Mill, and as it is, in my opinion, official cozy murder mystery season, your wish is my command.

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I'm Kayla.

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So this whole trial is very dramatic, very public.

And I do feel for Mr. Darcy.

Because like poor Mr. Darcy does not want to end up on the Regency version of Maury or Jerry Springer.

So every time he has to deal with Wickham in this, it looks like Matthew Rhys ages as Darcy, bless him.

Creevey Papers.

The Regency.

Part 1. it is time we entered better society than we have been in for the last few lectures of course much depends on the meaning of the word better i do not think we need attach any moral significance to it let me at once admit that by better i mean more select or perhaps exclusive is the right term for most people in the time of which i am about to treat it was necessary to be born to good society in order to obtain an entrance to it yet there were exceptions whilst there were men like brougham whose genius compelled recognition though they were made to feel that they neither were nor could be members of the inner circle there were others without even his social qualifications who took their place therein and made themselves felt and even feared by the highest in the land such a man was the author of the papers from which i shall borrow so much to-day nor can we forget that the rival in thon to the prince regent himself the first gentleman in europe was brummell the tradesman's son the subject of my remarks to-day will be at first mainly political not that i have any desire to raise controversial questions but one is bound to do so when speaking of english life during the great war with napoleon which bears so striking an analogy to the present There is a marked tendency to-day to say that the conduct of our statesmen and of society in general contrasts unfavourably with that of men of a century ago, and I think I shall be able to prove conclusively that under very different conditions the passions of men are much the same as formerly, and that, if the advantage is on either side, it is with the present rather than with the past.

I feel I have set myself a very difficult task in attempting to define a Whig in the later years of George III.

Lecture 5.

Creevy Papers.

The Regency.

Part 2. the thing which strikes us most in connection with the halcyon period of the dandies with its follies and lavish expenditure is that it coincided with some of the most anxious days through which england ever passed and with the age when distress and poverty were most keenly felt fashionable life was indeed fast and furious and characterized by its reckless extravagance everybody gambled every possible event was made the subject of a bet the turf was as it is to-day crowded with blacklegs and the issue of a great fight in the prize ring was watched with more trembling anxiety than that of a battle in spain or flanders the prevalence of drunkenness was universal every memoir of the times records drinking bouts innumerable the fine gentleman garnished every sentence with an oath and even used bad language in his letters to his friends dueling was universal pitt the duke of wellington castlereagh nearly all the leading statesmen had to fight even the duke of york though very near the throne met the duke of richmond but with all its failings the men of fashion had one merit though they were almost incredibly coarse brutal and selfish no one could reproach them with softness they may have been bad but they were men if they went to see prize-fighters beat each other into a jelly they were ready enough to use their fists themselves If they gambled the cards and the dice, they did so at the risk of ending their days in a debtor's prison.