It’s back. Eighty-seven years since it was first published, and more than half a century since it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is being revived in a BBC drama that is as much a reflection on today’s society as the between-the-wars Britain that obsessed DH Lawrence.
The lavish 90-minute drama stars James Norton as Lord Clifford Chatterley and Holliday Grainger as his wife, Constance, who embarks on a torrid affair with their gamekeeper, the former miner Oliver Mellors. It was Lawrence’s graphic description of their relationship that led to the prosecution of Penguin under the Obscene Publications Act in 1960 and made famous the passionate encounters between Constance and Mellors.
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