It has been nearly 250 years since the creator of Emma Woodhouse was born in Hampshire. Jane Austen’s novel Emma was published almost 210 years ago and the Theatre Royal Bath brought Ryan Craig’s romance-heavy adaptation to the Oxford Playhouse this week. We follow as the eponymous heroine – whom “no one but myself will much like”, as Austen put it – embarks on a journey of matchmaking, portraiture, and an imminent romance of her own, all ridden with mishaps and mystique. The po...
