![]() The Lizzie Bennet Diaries recasts Austen’s heroine as a graduate student in mass communications, forced to live at home because of financial constraints. ![]() There are television shows, movies, movie spinoffs and now a YouTube series. ![]() There are Pride and Prejudice baby books, comic books, zombie books, sequels, prequels, fan fictions, and pornographic novels ( Pride and Promiscuity anyone?). So commented the viewers on the 57th installment of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a YouTube modernization of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, produced by Hank Green and Bernie Su and starring Ashley Clements as Lizzie. The timing for the series could not be more auspicious, since Pride and Prejudice officially celebrates its bicentennial on January 28. Though not famous in Austen’s lifetime, the book is now a superstar and the source of a major commercial industry. “ohmygosh i haven’t even met darcy yet, and i’m already madly fangirling over him.” ![]() “When are we going to see darcy gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?” ![]()
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