In the spring of 1943, disillusioned Army captain Charles Ryder stumbles upon Brideshead, once home to the Marchmain family, and recalls how he visited it for the first time twenty years ago. While ...

Before Downton Abbey there was Upstairs, Downstairs, and before both, there was Brideshead Revisited. The latter has been twice adapted for film, but it began its life as a great work of literature ...

Brideshead Revisited has become one of the inescapable cultural objects of our — comparatively — recent times. Many otherwise sober critics and literary scholars regard the novel as Evelyn Waugh’s ...

A movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s tale of England collapsing under the pressure of social change—even one that has passed through the pop filter of co-writer Andrew Davies, British TV’s designated ...

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In 1940, a devastating fire tore through Castle Howard, a historic home set on 1,000 wooded acres in North Yorkshire, England. The Baroque mansion was built by architects Sir John Vanbrugh and ...

Emma Thompson will star in a movie version of Brideshead Revisited, it was announced. She will play Lady Marchmain, leader of the dysfunctional family at the centre of the period tale, while Michael ...

In 1940, a devastating fire tore through Castle Howard, a historic home set on 1,000 wooded acres in North Yorkshire, England. The Baroque mansion was built by architects Sir John Vanbrugh and ...