If one thing about Tess of the d'Urbervilles sticks with me it is the haunting, dare I say menacing, d'Urberville gaze. A race lost to time, the d'Urberville gaze manages to live on, in the family's ...
John Durbeyfield (Ian Puleston-Davies), a "haggler" and a drunk, is weaving his way one afternoon towards the pub when he meets the village priest, Parson Tringham (Donald Sumpter). The priest informs ...
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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Today it is easy to dismiss Thomas Hardy as a rather overwrought romantic and certainly in Tess Of The d'Urbervilles many of the faults ...
John Durbeyfield (Ian Puleston-Davies), a "haggler" and a drunk, is weaving his way one afternoon towards the pub when he meets the village priest, Parson Tringham (Donald Sumpter). The priest informs ...
Angel Clare is the son of a clergyman; Tess's husband and true love. He considers himself a freethinker but his notions of morality turn out to be very conventional when he abandons Tess. "What ...