Yet more great adaptations The classic Dickens novel that just keeps on giving
The Guardian|March 25, 2023
What is it about Great Expectations? Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight's new dramatisation of Dickens's novel is the seventh BBC adaptation - the first appearing on screens in 1954.
- John Mullan
Yet more great adaptations The classic Dickens novel that just keeps on giving

Cinema has loved it too. David Lean's 1946 film remains the most celebrated, but there were three earlier film versions and have been five more since. The first, in 1974, starred a youngish Michael York as Pip, Dickens's self-deluding protagonist, obsessed with the unattainable Estella; the most recent was Mike Newell's 2012 version, scripted by the novelist and Dickens aficionado David Nicholls.

Dickens has long proved irresistible to dramatisers. Armando Iannucci's witty 2019 film, The Personal History of David Copperfield, was the 12th major screen adaptation of that novel, yet managed to do new justice to the zaniness of its humour. A Christmas Carol, meanwhile, is the most frequently adapted literary classic in the English language, entertaining exactly because we know it so well.

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