“Persuasion” — Jane Austen’s long-overlooked and underappreciated final novel about a regretful almost-spinster — is suddenly having a moment. It's about time.
and starring Sarah Snook, who plays Shiv Roy in HBO’s “Succession.” Netflix announced its own “Persuasion” adaptation in April 2021, just a few months before the Bedlam theater company staged the play in New York. An adaptation, mind you, that was different from the new theater adaptation put on in London and Oxford earlier this year.
“She’s sort of not preoccupied with the need to get married,” Winslow said. “There’s just a lot going on for her that is external to the marriage-as-aspirational plot line.”Scott, who teaches English composition at two Cincinnati colleges, is the creator of the Facebook community “The novel is so obsessed with time,” said Stefanie Markovits, who teaches English literature at Yale. “And to my mind, that’s what is most reflective of the moment that we’re in.”
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