In Thomas Hardy's novels Casterbridge is based on which real town or city?
Thomas Hardy is set in Dorchester, Hardy's Casterbridge, and was intended by Powys to be a "rival" to Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge". "Maiden Castle" is the last of Powys's so-called Wessex novels, "Wolf Solent" (1929), "A Glastonbury Romance" (1932), and "Weymouth Sands" (1934), which are set in Somerset and Dorset. Hardy was clearly the starting point for the character of the novelist Edward Driffield in W. Somerset Maugham's novel "Cakes and Ale" (1930). Thomas Hardy's works also feature prominently in the American playwright Christopher Durang's "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" (1985), in which a graduate thesis analysing "Tess of the
The Mayor of Casterbridge landscape is drawn with a naturalist's eye and in which country people play out their lives between custom and education, work and ideas, and love of place and experience of change.. Hardy's portrait of Henchard – depressive, black-tempered, self-destructive but also lovable as a child is lovable – she considered one of his strongest achievements. She did concur with Hardy, however, in noting that he has tried to pack in too many incidents. The Mayor of Casterbridge The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy.