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Private Eye
02/28/2008
This is a just a little piece from last month's Private Eye that made me giggle. Thought I'd share it: AUSTEN ADAPTATION WOWS PUBLIC Yes! Jane Austen has done it again with her usual trick of taking out all the sex from Andrew Davies's raunchy love romp and turning it into a polite comedy of manners. Austen maintains that, "Beneath the obvious erotic surface of Davies's Sex and Sexability there is a society heaving with bonnets carriages and card games". "Why shouldn't I miss out a few sex scenes and shove in a quadrille or two?" Jane protested. "I mean just because it's the 18th century doesn't mean they didn't like a good dance?" Critics, however, have accused Austen of cynically stripping out the essentials of Davies's classic bonkfest in the hope of appealing to a literary audience. "She is just out to get readers," said TV's Mark Lawson, "It's pathetic and obvious." Jane Austen is 191. Back to headlines
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