It gives you an expanded version of what you currently see on PBS, including full seasons of your favorite shows before they have aired weekly. The content here is free if you are a current PBS donor (at $60/year or $5/month levels, typically, though levels vary by location). Route 2) If all of that sounds too pricey or complicated, you can instead download the PBS Passport app. And/or, you can choose to pay for the Britbox add-on (additional $6.99/month) for access to still another great list of BBC shows. You can also choose to pay for the PBS Masterpiece add-on via Amazon Prime (additional $5.99/month), which gives you another host of great options. Route 1) If you are an Amazon Prime subscriber, there are a lot of great series already included in your Prime Membership. However, there are two routes you can take to watch the bulk of the best that Masterpiece has to offer. Thankfully, now, it’s just Masterpiece.īut like so much in the streaming world, just because we once saw these shows on PBS doesn’t mean you can find them there today (RIP forever the OG Anne of Green Gables miniseries). Those have, over the years, mostly been part of Masterpiece Theater, Masterpiece Classic, Masterpiece Mystery, and Masterpiece Contemporary. Yes, PBS has given us many treasures over the last 50 (yes, 50! years!) like Frontline, NOVA, Sesame Street, The Joy of Painting and Arthur, but it’s also full of great UK period pieces and crime series. Whimsically modified fairy tales are set in a French chateau, while an engaging love story poetically evokes peasant life in wine-growing Germany.When most of us think of PBS series, our minds go to what is actually under the Masterpiece banner. The story of Cousin Phillis, her masterly tale of love and loss, is a subtle, complex and perceptive analysis of changes in English national life during an industrial age, while the gripping Lois the Witch recreates the terrors of the Salem witchcraft trials in seventeenth-century New England, as Gaskell shrewdly shows the numerous roots of this furious outbreak of delusion.

As diverse in setting as in subject matter, these tales move from the gentle comedy of life in a small English country town in Dr Harrison’s Confessions, to atmospheric horror in far north-west Wales with The Doom of the Griffiths. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of her art. The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell’s shorter fiction is amazing. With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple, University of Hull.

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