Far from the Madding Crowd the baby. Mother and child are then placed in a coffin and sent home to Weatherbury for interment. Gabriel, who has long known of Troy's relationship with Fanny, tries to conceal the child's existence – but Bathsheba agrees that the coffin can be left in her house overnight, from her sense of duty towards a former servant of the household. Her new servant, Liddy, repeats the rumour that Fanny had a child; when all the servants are in bed, Bathsheba unscrews the lid and sees the two bodies inside. Troy then comes home from Casterbridge, where he had gone to
Far from the Madding Crowd (1998 film) visually striking as the 1967 film -- some of the locations are virtually identical -- and is more naturally rendered dramatically, with a rough language truer to Hardy's blend of poetry and rural speech." Far from the Madding Crowd (1998 film) Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1998 drama television film adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel of the same name. Will Joyner of "The New York Times" wrote a positive review of the adaptation: "Strangely, and to its great credit, this new "Far From the Madding Crowd," which was produced by Granada Television in Britain and WGBH-TV in