The Masterpiece Theatre production, set during the Industrial Revolution, follows the lives of the fictional English town of Middlemarch. Based on George Eliot's classic novel, the story revolves around Dorothea Brooke, a socially conscious but naive woman, who marries Reverend Edward Casaubon, leading to a chain of events that transforms Middlemarch.
In the town of Middlemarch, where industrialization and modern transportation...