North and South

Adaptations

Television and literature

In the first television adaptation (in 1966), Richard Leech played Mr. Thornton and Wendy Williams played Margaret Hale.

In the second television adaptation (in 1975), Patrick Stewart played Mr. Thornton and Rosalind Shanks played Margaret Hale. Tim Pigott-Smith, who played Mr. Hale in the 2004 adaptation, played Frederick (his son) in the 1975 version. In 2004, the BBC aired North & South, a four-episode serial with Daniela Denby-Ashe and Richard Armitage in the lead roles. Sandy Welch wrote the screenplay, and Brian Percival directed.[83] The 2004 version renewed interest in the novel and attracted a wider readership.

Intended as a pastiche of Gaskell's work, the novel Nice Work by David Lodge, was published in 1988.[84] A Sunday Express Book of the Year winner, it was adapted as a television series by the BBC in 1989.


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