If you are watching, turn the subtitles on—you’ll likely need them for the dialect—but do so knowing that you are reading a translation of a performance, one that attempts to capture the "Life and Death of a Man of Character" in twenty characters per line.
(Michael Henchard, as a young man, auctions off his wife and daughter in desperation)
Hardy’s lexicon is specific. Terms like “furmage” (cottage cheese), “ricking” (stacking hay), or “higgler” (a peddler) appear frequently. If you are using auto-generated YouTube captions, they will produce gibberish. Only a curated SRT file handles these words correctly.
Multiple DVD releases of the 2003 miniseries have been criticized for their lack of accessibility features:
His portrayal of Michael Henchard is described as "stunning," "masterful," and "intense". Supporting Cast: Reviewers from
