The Regency you might not know might seem strangely familiar

Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our spring/summer MainStage production of Pride and Prejudice. The clothing, the customs and the class system of the Regency may seem distant from our own time, but ongoing foreign wars, a fragile economy, criticism of the wealthy and an active Evangelical movement could […]

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The Enigmatic Jane

Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our spring/summer MainStage production of Pride and Prejudice. There is something enigmatic about Jane Austen that makes it difficult for readers to have a sense of her beyond her novel and a few meager biographical details and this sense of her as a […]

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What is this connection we have to Pride and Prejudice?

Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our spring/summer MainStage production of Pride and Prejudice. Dear Reader, “What is this connection we have to Pride and Prejudice?” (This being a blog post in which neuroscientists and I will state the obvious about reading and still fail to capture the ineffable […]

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