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Adaptations

The Mayor of Casterbridge has been adapted for TV twice, on both occasions as a miniseries:

• in 2003 by Ted Whitehead for the A&E Television Networks starring Ciarán Hinds - The Mayor of Casterbridge at the Internet Movie Database
• in 1978 by Dennis Potter for the BBC starring Alan Bates as Henchard, Anna Massey as Lucetta, and Anne Stallybrass as Susan - The Mayor of Casterbridge at the Internet Movie Database

The 1978 version was broadcast in the U.S. by PBS as part of Masterpiece Theatre. In 2008 Helen Edmundson adapted it into a three-episode radio play for BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial slot.^[1] A version of the story was also filmed in 2000 as The Claim, with the setting changed to a town (called Kingdom Come) in the American West of the 19th Century. The film was directed by Michael Winterbottom from a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce.

In 1951 the novel was adapted as an opera by the British composer Peter Tranchell.