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Article: Marriage and a writer ahead of his time; Last night's BBC TV adaptation of Trollope's He Knew He Was Right raises questions about the way we live now, says a leading academic.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 19, 2004
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Byline: JOHN SUTHERLAND
MILLIONS of us - up to seven million, if the producers have hit their target - watched the first instalment of He Knew He Was Right last night.
What would this 135-year-old, vast lump of Victorian narrative (1,000 pages in its printed version) have to offer the contemporary viewer other than period costumes and equally dated melodrama?
And why, one may ask, did Andrew Davies - out of the massed ranks of Trollope's 47 novels - choose He Knew He Was Right for such a big-budget project? Whatever else, Davies did not pick on He Knew He Was Right on the grounds of its outstanding literary excellence.
No one has ever ...