This "Bleak House" is peopled with a vast assortment of characters, all beautifully cast -- and in any Dickens adaptation, that's only the first hurdle, but it's a crucial one.

As Bleak House plays on our screens in coming weeks we are given an excellent opportunity to see what a master storyteller Dickens is. As always with Dickens, the names of his characters are ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If Jane Austen was the mistress of 19th-century manners then Charles Dickens was the master of characters. With the characters of ...

On Feb. 28 two days after the sixth and final installment is scheduled to air on PBS the three-disc DVD box set of "Bleak House" ($39.98) will be available from BBC Video. Date of Publication 01 ...

Instead, I came to realize that Dickens himself had offered the answer — in “Bleak House.” The character John Jarndyce stays above the lawsuit that has poisoned generations of his family.

BLEAK HOUSE. By Wenzel Jones | Last Updated: November 05, 2019. Gene Franklin Smith has ... Characters enter and leave at a brisk clip on the one-size-fits-all set (Adam Woods), ...

Gillian Anderson is back, and Masterpiece Theatre has her. The X-Files star mesmerizes as the mysterious Lady Dedlock in Bleak House, and she’s the main lure for this splendid eight-hour ...

Jo the crossing sweeper is only a minor character in the sprawlingly ambitious Bleak House, but he lingers in the memory.In plot terms, his crucial role is identifying the mysterious Nemo, and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Even by the BBC's high standards, this adaptation of Charles Dickens's sprawling novel is a triumph. The star-studded cast performs ...