The Barchester Chronicles
The
Barchester Chronicles è una mini serie della BBC in cui Alan Rickman ricopre il ruolo di Obadiah Slope.
In sintesi la storia parla di un vescovo che arriva in questa cittadina a sostituire quello vecchio che è morto.
Il nuovo vescovo, Proudie, porta con se la moglie e il suo capellano Obadiah Slope che è alquanto sinistro ed arrivista.
La moglie del vescovo Proudie è una donna molto determinata e in paese si comincia ad accorgersi che è lei a prendere tutte le decisioni importanti al posto del marito.
Slope invece passa il tempo a cercare di fare la scalata sociale, cercando di sposare una ricca vedova.
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The Barchester Chronicles
Genre Drama
Written by Alan Plater
Anthony Trollope
Directed by David Giles
Starring Donald Pleasence
David Gwillim
John Ringham
Joseph O'Conor
Clifford Parrish
Country of origin United Kingdom
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 7
Production
Running time 55 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel BBC
Original run 10 November 1982 (1982-11-10) – 22 December 1982 (1982-12-22)
Status Ended
The Barchester Chronicles is a 1982 British television serial produced by the BBC. It is an adaptation of Anthony Trollope's first two Barchester novels, The Warden and Barchester Towers, and was directed by David Giles. It was largely filmed in and around Peterborough Cathedral, using locations such as the Deanery and Laurel Court.
The series starred Donald Pleasence as Mr Harding, Nigel Hawthorne as Archdeacon Grantly, Angela Pleasence as Mrs Grantly, Cyril Luckham as Bishop Grantly, David Gwillim as John Bold, George Costigan as Tom Towers, John Ringham as Finney, Barbara Flynn as Mary Bold, Janet Maw as Eleanor Harding, Clive Swift as Bishop Proudie, Geraldine McEwan as Mrs Proudie, Alan Rickman as Obadiah Slope, Susan Hampshire as Signora Madeline Neroni, and Ursula Howells as Miss Thorne.
The series won a BAFTA award for Design (Chris Pemsel) in 1982, also being nominated for Drama Series/Serial (Jonathan Powell, David Giles), Costume Design (Juanita Waterson), Graphics (Stewart Austin), Make Up (Elizabeth Rowell), Sound Supervisor (Chick Anthony), Video Cameraman (Geoff Feld), and Video Lighting (Howard King).IL DVD si può acquistare
QUIL'adattamento televisivo è tratto dalla fusione di due romanzi di Antony Trollope: ''The Warden'' del 1855 e ''Barchester Towers''del 1857.
Tradotti in Italia l'uno come ''L'amministratore'' (anche se precedentemente tradotto come ''Un caso di Coscienza'') e l'altro come ''Le Torri di Barchester''.
Quello sotto riportato è un brano da un saggio in cui si parla del Personaggio di Obadiah Slope.
Obadiah Slope's C.V.
From an essay written by David Skilton for The Oxford Reader’s Companion to TrollopeEdited by R.C. Terry, Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-866210-6, page 490.
Slope, Revd. Obadiah, Obadiah Slope is the evangelical domestic chaplain to Bishop Proudie in Barchester Towers, and a special protégé of the Bishop’s wife, with ambitions to rule the diocese. As a sectarian controversalist in the national press, he’s already crossed swords with Francis Arabin. He has earlier successfully wooed Olivia Proudie, but has given her up because her father was not rich, and subsequently attempted to rekindle the flame on the latter’s preferment. His first act in Barchester is to preach a sermon in the cathedral deliberately offensive to the majority of the clergy. In affairs of the heart he switches his attention to Eleanor Bold and her income, tot he consternation of Archdeacon Grantly’s party, and on the death of Dr. Trefoil persuades Tom Towers of the Jupiter to propose him unsuccessfully, as dean. He becomes entrapped by the Signora Neroni’s sexual charms, to the horror of Mrs. Proudie, who expels him from Barchester. He returns to London, marrying a rich widow and obtaining a living near New Road. He is said to be lineally descended from Dr. Slop, "who assisted at the birth of Mr. T. Shandy:, and has "added an ‘e’ to his name, for the sake of euphony, as other great men have done before him" – a joke on Trollope/trollop (BT IV). The Christian name, Obadiah, derives from a servant of Tristam Shandy’s father. Slope is presented negatively throughout, the fact of having been a sizar at Cambridge being held as a social disgrace, his family’s conversion from Roman Catholicism contributing to the impression of hypocrisy, and his personal appearance – red hair, red face, thin bloodless lips, prominent pale brown eyes, and a spongy red nose, sweaty palms, and (cut from the manuscript at Longman’s request) bad breath – completing his unattractiveness.
Anthony Trollope, from the Encyclopaedia Britannica
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