1st Edition

Adapting to the Stage Theatre and the Work of Henry James

206 Pages

by 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

Part 1: Two Contexts: the Theatre and the Ouevre 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 Part 2: 'The Theatrical Straitjacket': 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 8. Conclusion: The Material Self