Melbourne Theatre Company’s stage adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s story dazzles with its lighting, set and costume design. But it lacks thematic depth.
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Jacqueline Wilson is reinventing a Enid Blyton’s classic, but can new authors do justice to old favourites?
From ghosts and meddling staff to interesting decorating choices, the houses in these books make for great reading.
It’s a very modern version which gives the female characters more agency than in previous adaptations.
A new Netflix adaptation of Rebecca stars Lily James and Armie Hammer. The novel on which it is based, first published in 1938, explores domestic entrapment.
Wild coastlines, rich folklore and a sense that it’s a place unto itself, at once England and not, has made Cornwall the ideal setting for Gothic tales.
Hidden behind a photograph of the author about to dive into the sea, the new poems give is a picture of a young writer beginning to test out her ideas.
Once dismissed as a mere ‘love story’, Daphne du Maurier’s masterpiece has transfixed generations of readers.
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Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford
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Professor of English Literature, University of Dundee
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer in Victorian literature and culture, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne