The novel has been adapted into:
- A six-part television serial, Jude the Obscure (1971), directed by Hugh David, starring Robert Powell and Fiona Walker
- A feature film, Jude (1996), directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet
- A two-part musical stage adaptation of Jude the Obscure[16] by Ian Finley (book), Bruce Benedict (music), Jonathan Fitts (music), and Jerome Davis (lyrics), premiered at Burning Coal Theatre Company in Raleigh, NC in April 2012[17]
- The British playwright Howard Brenton wrote an updated adaptation of the novel,[18] simply titled Jude, which premiered at The Hampstead Theatre in North London in May 2019. In this version, Jude is a free-spirited female Syrian refugee who works as a cleaner, her cousin is a male relative who becomes a radical Muslim, and she is regularly visited by a figure representing the Greek poet Euripides.
- The BBC Radio 4 series "Hardy's Women" (2020) featured a three-part adaptation of Jude the Obscure.[19]
