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Category Archives: Fiction
Tony Last and Julian Assange
A UK political blogger has posted a message comparing the plight of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the hero of Waugh’s novel Handful of Dust. This was T0ny Last, who: … ends the book trapped as a prisoner in the Brazilian jungle – … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust
Tagged Charles Dickens, Julian Assange
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Adapter of Brideshead Film Profiled in Independent
Andrew Davies, probably the most prominent adapter of books into TV series is profiled in a recent issue of the Independent newspaper. This article is inspired by his latest script which adapted Tolstoy’s War and Peace into a 6-hour series on … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film, Television
Tagged Andrew Davies, BBC, Independent newspaper, War and Peace
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TES Cites Black Mischief
The latest Times Educational Supplement cites Waugh’s Black Mischief in its “What Are You Reading? ” column. This has an entry by Peter Catterall, Reader in History at University of Westminister and author of several books on British history and politics, who writes: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Black Mischief
Tagged Peter Catterall, TES
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Julia Flyte and the Quality of Mercy
An article on the Christian concept of mercy in the recent opinion pages of the Times of Malta opens with a quote from Waugh: In Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited – that great Catholic novel on life, death, the fall from … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism
Tagged Merchant of Venice, Times of Malta
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New Book on Roman Catholic Culture Praises Waugh
A Roman Catholic newsblog OSV Newsweekly has posted a notice reviewing a recent book by Robert Royal. This is A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Traditions in the Twentieth Century. According to the reviewer (Russell Shaw), Royal’s book: …is an attempt — a remarkably successful … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Sword of Honour
Tagged A Deeper Vision, OSV Weekly, Robert Royal
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Two Essays Posted with Brideshead Themes
Two essays have recently been posted which discuss themes developed by Waugh in Brideshead Revisited. The first is entitled “Is Downton Abbey the best we can do?” and is posted on a political internet blog called opendemocracy.net, which is self described as nonpartisan. … Continue reading
West Country Film Festival to Mark Waugh Anniversary
The Bridport News has announced that the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death will be marked at the upcoming From Page to Screen Film Festival. This will be in Bridport, Dorset from 30 March-3 April. Details will be provided next month. Meanwhile, two … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Television
Tagged Charles Sturridge, Claire Bloom, Granada TV, Page to Screen Film Festival
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Brideshead in “Yorkshirewood”
The Yorkshire Post in a recent article recounts the large number of films and TV series that have been set or filmed in Yorkshire, giving much of the credit for this to an agency called Screen Yorkshire. The most recent … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Television
Tagged Castle Howard, Yorkshire Post
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Echoes of Waugh in New Morse Prequel Series
ITV in the U.K. is running the third series of its Morse prequel which is concluding this week. This is entitled Endeavour and is based on Morse’s early career in the Oxford police force in the 1960s. There seems to be … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Oxford, Television
Tagged Endeavour, ITV, Lewis, Masterpiece Theatre, Morse, PBS
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Guy Crouchback Inspiration for U.S. Conservatives
The current issue of The American Conservative magazine carries an article about the leaders of the post war conservative revival in the U.S. This is on the occasion of the publication of a book about one of them–Russell Kirk:American Conservative by … Continue reading
Posted in Men at Arms, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Russell Kirk, The American Conservative
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