Under the Greenwood Tree

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Under the Greenwood Tree is an early pastoral novel by Thomas Hardy that gently portrays rural village life and courtship in 19th-century England.

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instanceOf novel
pastoral novel
adaptation Under the Greenwood Tree self-linksurface differs
surface form: Under the Greenwood Tree (1918 film)

Under the Greenwood Tree self-linksurface differs
surface form: Under the Greenwood Tree (1929 film)

Under the Greenwood Tree self-linksurface differs
surface form: Under the Greenwood Tree (2005 television film)
author Thomas Hardy
containsCharacterGroup Mellstock choir
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationForm serial
follows Desperate Remedies
form prose
genre pastoral fiction
regional novel
romantic fiction
hasAlternativeTitle Under the Greenwood Tree
surface form: Under the Greenwood Tree; or, The Mellstock Quire
hasPart “Part the Fifth: The Conclusion”
“Part the First: Mellstock Quire”
“Part the Fourth: Going the Rounds”
“Part the Second: Fancy Day”
“Part the Third: A Confession”
influencedBy English rural life
literaryMovement Victorian literature
literarySignificance one of Thomas Hardy’s earliest published novels
mainCharacter Dick Dewy
Fancy Day
narrativeFocus courtship
rural village life
narrativePerspective third-person narration
narrativeTone gentle
originalLanguage English
partOf Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels
surface form: Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
publicationYear 1872
publisher Tinsley Brothers
settingPeriod 19th-century England
settingPlace rural Wessex
theme love and marriage
rural community life
tradition versus change
timeOfSetting mid-19th century
titleOrigin line from William Shakespeare’s play “As You Like It”

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Thomas Hardy notableWork Under the Greenwood Tree
Stinsford churchyard appearsIn Under the Greenwood Tree
Under the Greenwood Tree adaptation Under the Greenwood Tree self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Under the Greenwood Tree (1918 film)
Under the Greenwood Tree adaptation Under the Greenwood Tree self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Under the Greenwood Tree (1929 film)
Under the Greenwood Tree adaptation Under the Greenwood Tree self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Under the Greenwood Tree (2005 television film)
Under the Greenwood Tree hasAlternativeTitle Under the Greenwood Tree
this entity surface form: Under the Greenwood Tree; or, The Mellstock Quire
Wessex (fictional region) usedIn Under the Greenwood Tree