There’s a palpable darkness in Steven Knight’s adaptation of “Great Expectations.” It’s figurative, embedded in the characters and the storyline, but also literal, with dirt and rot caking everything.

Some of the new adaptions of one of Charles Dicken's most beloved novels, Great Expectations, have been controversial, leading to a debate about how far new adaptations should stray from the original.

A new adaptation of Dickens’s novel takes liberties with the plot, but has the same preoccupations with class and the allure of money and status. By Roslyn Sulcas Reporting from London Dickens purists ...

FX, in partnership with the BBC, has made a dreary, dismal and not very Dickensian miniseries out of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations.” And while that seems to be in some measure the point, it is, ...