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‘Bridgerton’ is an addictive reimagining of Jane Austen-style romance – TechCrunch

“Bridgerton,” the Shondaland drama that launched last month on Netflix, offers a few key updates to the standard formula of Regency-era  romance. For one thing, there’s a racially diverse cast, with Black actors taking on the role of early 19th-century English nobility and royalty. (At one point, one of the characters offers an unconvincing explanation for why this is the case, but we — and the…

‘Emma’ stars open up about learning Jane Austen-style etiquette

Johnny Flynn, one of the stars of Autumn de Wilde’s new adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma, says learning the rules of etiquette of the period made him yearn for a return to simpler times.

The British actor, who plays the titular matchmaker’s neighbor George Knightley in the period dramedy, says he wishes we could resurrect the art of conversation that played a pivotal role in society,…