Charles Bovary, destroyed by his wife Emma's death, has left Berthe a penniless orphan. Unlike her narcissistic mother and weak-willed father, Berthe is determined to succeed.

To get the details right in his fiction, the Madame Bovary author devoured hundreds, perhaps thousands, of books.

The misadventures of tragic heroine Emma Bovary – a dissatisfied wife seeking sex, excitement and autonomy – may seem tame and familiar by today’s standards, but this breezy comic adaptation ...

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Godot, yesterday was the one-thousand-three-hundred-and-sixty-seventh appointment you’ve missed. Are Tuesdays at two-thirty still a good time to meet?

Review: THE MASSIVE TRAGEDY OF MADAME BOVARY!, Jermyn Street Theatre A totally bonkers adaptation of Flaubert's chef d'oeuvre is Jermyn Street Theatre's Christmas choice.

Madame Bovary was exceptional in that she tried to live her dream-life; she was exceptional in her beauty. Nor have the incidents quite the inevitability that Flaubert sought.

The jury, however, didn’t believe him. Instead, Edith was painted as a deadly femme fatale, earning her the nickname “the Madame Bovary of North-East London.” In 1934, the popular novelist, playwright ...