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Adapting to the Stage: Theatre and the Work of Henry James Theatre and the Work of Henry James
By Chris Greenwood
Copyright 2000
206 Pages
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Routledge
206 Pages
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Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000: The American novelist and playwright, Henry James, was drawn to the theatre and the shifting conventions of drama throughout his writing career. This study demonstrates that from the 1890s onwards James concentrated on adapting his novels and stories to and from the stage, and increasingly employed metaphors that spoke of novel-writing in terms of... Read more
Abandoning the Soliloquy/Staging the Narrator; 1: Two contexts: the Theatre and the Oeuvre; 1: Psychological Space in ‘The Summersoft Group’and the Late Plays; 2: 1881–94: Well-made Drama; 3: ‘A Projected Form’: Ellipsis and the Fourth Wall; 4: Conclusion: Abandoning the Soliloquy; 2: ‘The Theatrical Strait-jacket’: The Other House and The Spoils of Poynton; 5: The ‘Cultivation of Limits’; 6: The Other House: Psychology Embodied; 7: Fleda’s Sense of the Past: The ‘Poetry of… Something Sensibly Gone ’; 8: Conclusion: The Material Self
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Chris Greenwood
