"Let No Man Steal Your Thyme" (Thomas Hardy On Film)

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A tribute to the novels of Thomas Hardy, as they have been adapted for film and television. I tried to include as many as I could find (and the ones that are available on Region 1 DVD), using Annie Briggs' rendition of the traditional English folk song "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme" (a slightly shorter version than is in the 2015 version of "Far From The Madding Crowd") and a song by Enaid from the album "Avalon". These characters created by Hardy are often people who are unconventional in a time when such non-conformity was frowned upon; others had to deal with the tragic hand of fate and hardship. Tragedy, romance, love, death, hope, desolation, yet the beauty and bleakness of nature combined make these characters and stories intriguing and interesting.

Clips from:

"Far From The Madding Crowd" (1967)
"Tess" (1979)
"The Return Of The Native" (1994)
"Jude" (1996)
"The Woodlanders" (1997)
"Tess Of The D'Urbervilles" (1998)
"The Mayor Of Casterbridge" (1998)
"Far From The Madding Crowd" (1998)
"Tess Of The D'Urbervilles" (2008)
"Far From The Madding Crowd" (2015)