Editing Middlemarch (section)

==Legacy and adaptations==
''Middlemarch'' has been adapted several times for television and the stage. In 1968 it appeared as a BBC-produced TV [[mini-series]] of the same name, directed by Joan Craft, starring [[Michele Dotrice]]. The first episode, "Dorothea", is [[Lost television broadcast#Wiping|missing]] from the BBC Archives, while the third episode, "The New Doctor", can be viewed online, although only as a low-quality black and white [[telerecording]] owned by a private collector. The other five episodes have been withheld from public viewing.<ref name=roberts>{{Cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Jerry |title=Encyclopedia of television film directors |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediatele00robe |url-access=registration |date=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, Md. |isbn=9780810863781 |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediatele00robe/page/n123 105]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1-pBaik3o|title = Middlemarch Episode 3 "The New Doctor", 1968, Hannah Gordon, Helen Christie, Richard Pearson F654|website = [[YouTube]]| date=14 April 2021 |access-date = 7 March 2022|archive-date = 7 March 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220307092301/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1-pBaik3o|url-status = live}}</ref> In 1994 it was again adapted by the BBC as [[Middlemarch (TV serial)|a television series of the same name]], directed by [[Anthony Page]] with a screenplay by [[Andrew Davies (writer)|Andrew Davies]]. This was a critical and financial success and revived public interest adaptating the classics.<ref name=bfiso>{{Cite web |title=Middlemarch |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1364573/index.html |website=[[Screenonline]] |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=21 March 2015 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402113835/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1364573/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2013 came a stage adaptation, and also an [[Orange Tree Theatre#Repertory|Orange Tree Theatre Repertory]] production adapted and directed by [[Geoffrey Beevers]] as three plays: ''Dorothea's Story'', ''The Doctor's Story'', and ''Fred & Mary''.<ref>{{Cite web |website=OrangeTreeTheater.co.uk |title=What's On: ''Middlemarch'': 'Dorothea's Story' |url=http://www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/middlemarch-dorotheas-story |access-date=18 October 2013 |archive-date=19 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019134837/http://www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/middlemarch-dorotheas-story |url-status=live }}</ref> The novel has never been made into a film, although the idea was toyed with by the English director [[Sam Mendes]].<ref name=irvine>{{Cite news |last1=Irvine |first1=Lindesay |title=Mendes to direct mini-Middlemarch |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/23/film.news |access-date=5 July 2015 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=23 April 2007 |archive-date=17 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017072653/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/23/film.news |url-status=live }}</ref> In April 2022, Dash Arts produced ''The Great Middlemarch Mystery'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Great Middlemarch Mystery |url=https://www.dasharts.org.uk/the-great-middlemarch-mystery |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=DASH ARTS |language=en-US |archive-date=11 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511023158/https://www.dasharts.org.uk/the-great-middlemarch-mystery |url-status=live }}</ref> an [[Immersive theater|immersive theatre]] experience<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-17 |title=Immersive show turns Middlemarch into 1980s murder mystery |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/17/the-great-middlemarch-mystery-immersive-show-coventry-george-eliot |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=The Guardian |language=en |archive-date=31 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531012718/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/17/the-great-middlemarch-mystery-immersive-show-coventry-george-eliot |url-status=live }}</ref> staged across three locations in Coventry, including [[Drapers' Hall, Coventry|Drapers Hall]].

The opera ''Middlemarch in Spring'' by [[Allen Shearer]], to a libretto by [[Claudia Stevens]], has a cast of six and treats only the central story of Dorothea Brooke. It was first staged in San Francisco in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/music/article/Opera-review-Middlemarch-in-Spring-is-a-6150113.php?t=ecfe361608 |title=Opera review: 'Middlemarch in Spring' is a sunny romp |website=sfchronicle.com |date=21 March 2015 |access-date=2 April 2018 |archive-date=14 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814232654/https://www.sfchronicle.com/music/article/Opera-review-Middlemarch-in-Spring-is-a-6150113.php?t=ecfe361608 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2017, a modern adaptation, ''Middlemarch: The Series'', aired on YouTube as a [[video blog]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/middlemarch-gets-winningly-adapted-as-a-web-series |title=''Middlemarch'' Gets Winningly Adapted as a Web Series |last=Mead |first=Rebecca |author-link=Rebecca Mead |date=14 July 2017 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=27 February 2018 |archive-date=27 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227153458/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/middlemarch-gets-winningly-adapted-as-a-web-series |url-status=live }}</ref> Lyrics for the song "[[How Soon Is Now?]]" by [[The Smiths]] were taken from ''Middlemarch'' ("I am the son and heir, of nothing in particular").