Rupert Graves and James Wilby in a scene from the Merchant-Ivory adaptation of Maurice (1987)
Written in 1913-14 but not published until 1971, after the author’s death, E.M. Forster’s Maurice is a landmark English novel about same-sex love between two men of very different classes; in was adapted for the screen in 1987 by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a stage version following in 1998, adapted by Roger Parsley and Andy Graham.