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Category Archives: Fiction
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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Happier Hunting Ground (U.K. Branch)
The Daily Telegraph has run an article on the history and current status of pet cemeteries and crematoria in the U.K. A cite to Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One, which prominently described one such institution in Southern California, was perhaps inevitable. … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One
Tagged Daily Telegraph, pet cemeteries
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Vile Bodies and Aladdin Sane
A newsblog has posted a review of David Bowie’s 1973 Aladdin Sane album in which the connections with Waugh’s novel Vile Bodies are further elaborated: Named after the pun ‘A Lad Insane’, David Bowie has stated that this album was … Continue reading
Additional Venues Announced for Brideshead Stage Production
The English Touring Company has announced additional venues for its stage production of Brideshead Revisited. These include Bath, Cambridge, Malvern, Brighton, and Richmond-on-Thames. The production will begin in York and will also stop in Oxford and Southampton. See details here.
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged English Touring Theatre
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Paula Byrne and Philip Eade to Mark Waugh Anniversary
Waugh biographers Paula Byrne and Philip Eade will speak on the author’s life and work at this year’s Oxford Literary Festival. The joint presentation will mark the 50th anniversary of Waugh’s death on 10 April 1966. They will appear on Wednesday … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Oxford
Tagged Kathleen Kennedy, Oxford Literary Festival, Paula Byrne, Philip Eade
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