Richard Lindfield is both adapter and director as the Southwick Players take to the stage with Great Expectations by Charles ...

Instead, it’s suggested that the suffering Estella has endured through a cruel marriage has given her a deeper understanding of Pip’s life – “a heart to understand what [his] used to be”.

Keywords Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, Pip, Magwitch, Estella, Miss Havisham, imprisonment, Victorian society, ambition, social status, transformation, obsession, respectability.

In this mini-series, Miss Havisham and Estella give Pip a local housewife as a gift on his 18th birthday, so that he can lose his virginity. Apart from being another nauseating ploy to cater to ...

In this life there are three certainties: death, taxes, and adaptations of Great Expectations. This year is a bumper year for Dickens enthusiasts, what with the somewhat controversial BBC television ...

Estella's own love life ends on a somewhat positive note, as the final episode shows her dancing with Jaggers at Pip and Biddy's wedding, instead of marrying the abusive Drummle.

Pip won’t accept Estella’s terms of needing to marry somebody who loves her but whom she doesn’t love, and so he returns the ring and tells Estella that what she needs is her equal, a fellow ...

“Great Expectations” is a story told time and time again. Whether by reading the original Charles Dickens novel in a high school English class or watching one of the 17 previous screen adaptations of ...

Great Expectations' Pip star opens up on 'exhausting' scenes with Estella co-star Great Expectations has been adapted by Steven Knight for the BBC and continues with episode three as Pip is given ...

Great Expectations has been adapted by Steven Knight for the BBC and continues with episode three as Pip is given a brutal introduction to working for Mr Jaggers. By Helen Kelly 15:36, Sun, Apr 9 ...