I don't think being old is the ONLY reason Dickens is revered!
Oh, Dickens is good, but his works were popular literature in his time.
Whereas the later James Joyce gets revered as ART, but not much read
otherwise. Probably people deciding it was porn was the only reason
anyone bought it when it was first published.
It's amazing what does and does not get preserved.
I've got, BTW, an anonymous 1870s British melodrama I bet would make a
super BBC miniseries. It's got a cliffhanger at the end of every serial
installment, and for modern relevance it even has a racial tolerance
theme (the heroine is a "mulatto" among whites in Britain). This isn't
high art at all, but it's not bad and would make just as good a series
at many of the others. I've never wrote a script in my life, but
sometimes I'm tempted to try with some of these publications.
And why the heck doesn't BBC do Vita Sackville-West's bestseller _The
Edwardians_? It would make a much better film than Virgina Woolf's
stuff, which doesn't tend to translate well.
Fran
Lavolta Press
http://www.lavoltapress.com
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