2.3.

1 (a)

Great Expectations Dickenss and others

Below is one of many possible diagrammatic representations of the relations among an original and its adaptations both in novel and in film. This diagram is centred on Charles Dickenss Great Expectations (for the opening of which, introducing its here Pip, see 5.4.5) and includes Lloyd Joness related novel Mr Pip (see 5.3.1).

* Novel continuations *

Peter Carey, Jack Maggs (1997 ) View of convict (Magwitch) returned from Australia

Lloyd Jones, Mr Pip (2006 ; see 5.3.1). The novel as taught on modern, semi-literate revolution-torn Pacific island

Sue Roe, Estella: Her Expectations (1983) Estella on the dance scene in contemporary London

CHARLES DICKENS, GREAT EXPECTATIONS (18601) First published in serialised form in All the Year Round, December to August

dir. David Lean (1946, UK b/w); John Mills, Jean Simmons Classic grotesque and romantic version on marshes and in London.

dir A Cuaron, (1998, US) Ethan Hawke. Gwyneth Paltrow Painter in New York pursues childhood love back to Florida Everglades.

dir. J. Jarrold 1999 (US tv, Public Broadcasting, 3-part) Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell Cool Pip, troubled Estella and a naturalistically close version shot in Edinburgh as though London

script, Trey Parker Southpark (2000, No. 62, US tv animation) Science fiction version crossed with Wizard of Oz and with voice of Malcolm McDowell as English Person narrator.

* Film adaptations *

Other Dickens stories very frequently adapted and continued are: A Christmas Carol (not forgetting Muppets 1992 and Simpsons 2003 versions) and Oliver Twist (notably Lionel Barts musical Oliver!, first staged 1960, revived 200811; film 1968)

(Some of the above information was from Philip Allingham, Great Expectations in Film and Television, 19171998 on The Victorian Web http:// www. victorianweb.org/authors/dickens (accessed 21.12.10).) Still other diagrammatic shapes and original/adaptation interrelations are, of course, possible. See, for example, the triangulated, squared and open patterns including versions of Wuthering Heights (1.2.4 and 1.2.5). And yet others again could be projected out from and around the versions of Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Coetzee, Holdsworth and many, many more (see 5.2.2). As so often, these extend before the original, in the latter case with accounts of Andrew Selkirk and other shipwrecks and castaways (see @ 5.2.2).