Persuasion

Adaptations

Film

  • 2020: Modern Persuasion, a film modernisation and retelling of Persuasion, for Hulu starring Alicia Witt and directed by Alex Appel.[38]
  • 2022: Persuasion, a Netflix film starring Dakota Johnson as Anne and Cosmo Jarvis as Captain Wentworth.[39]

Digital Media

  • 2015: Classic Alice, a digital series adaptation starring Kate Hackett as an interpretation of Anne.[40]

Television

  • 1960: Persuasion, BBC miniseries starring Daphne Slater as Anne and Paul Daneman as Captain Wentworth.[41]
  • 1971: Persuasion, ITV miniseries starring Ann Firbank as Anne and Bryan Marshall as Captain Wentworth.[41]
  • 1972: Persuasión, a ten-part Spanish miniseries by TVE starring Maite Blasco as Ana (Anne) and Juan Diego as Michael Trent (Captain Wentworth).[42][43]
  • 1995: Persuasion, released in the United Kingdom as a made-for-television film starring Amanda Root as Anne and Ciarán Hinds as Captain Wentworth. This was released as a theatrical film in United States movie theatres by Sony Pictures Classics.[41]
  • 2007: Persuasion, television film using Bath locations shot in September 2006 for ITV1, with Sally Hawkins as Anne, Rupert Penry-Jones as Captain Wentworth.[44]
  • 2012: Moon Embracing the Sun, is a K-drama that loosely adapts the plot of Persuasion, setting it in a royal court during Korea's Joseon period. In this version, the lovers are the king and the princess Yeon Woo, who loses her memory and returns as a shaman eight years later.
  • 2019: Rational Creatures, a web series modernization of Persuasion, with Kristina Pupo as Ana Elías (Anne Elliot) and Peter Giessl as Fred Wentworth (Captain Wentworth), created by Ayelen Barrios, Hazel Jeffs, Jessamyn Leigh, and Anya Steiner.[45]

Theatre

  • 2010: Persuasion, a musical drama adapted from the novel by Barbara Landis, using music from the period selected from Austen's own writings. It was performed by Chamber Opera Chicago first in 2011,[46] again in 2013,[47] and subsequently performed by the same company in New York as well as several cities in the United Kingdom in 2013–2015.[48]
  • 2011: An adaptation for the stage of Persuasion by Tim Luscombe was produced by Salisbury Playhouse (Repertory Theatre) in 2011.[49][50] In 2019, this adaptation was staged by the Genesian Theatre.[51]
  • 2012: Persuasion, adapted for the theatre by Jon Jory, world-premiere at Onstage Playhouse in Chula Vista, California.[52]
  • 2015: Reading of Persuasion at 5th Avenue Theatre's Festival of New Musicals.[53]
  • 2017: Persuasion, a musical adaptation by Harold Taw and Chris Jeffries. World-premiere production at Taproot Theatre Company.[53]
  • 2017: Persuasion, directed by Jeff James, who adapted it with James Yeatman, ran at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester in May and June.[54] This adaptation ran at Alexandra Palace Theatre in April 2022.[55]
  • 2018: Persuasion: a new play by Sarah Rose Kearns, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen;[56] in development 2016–2018 with assistance from the HB Playwrights Foundation[57] and the Jane Austen Society of North America New York Metropolitan Region.[58]

Radio

  • 1986: BBC Radio 4 dramatised full-cast adaptation in three parts with Juliet Stevenson as Anne and Tim Brierley as Captain Wentworth.[59]

Literature using themes or characters of the novel

  • Beckford, Grania (1981), Virtues and Vices: A Delectable Rondelet of Love and Lust in Edwardian Times, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 978-0312849542
  • Dev, Sonali (2020), Recipe for Persuasion, Rajes, HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-283907-7, retrieved 18 November 2020
  • Peterfreund, Diana (2013), For Darkness Shows the Stars,[60] Balzer + Bray
  • Price, Sarah (2015), Second Chances: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion (The Amish Classics), Charisma Media, ISBN 978-1-62998-239-7

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