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The genius of Jane Austen : her love of theatre and why she works in Hollywood / Paula Byrne.
- Title
- The genius of Jane Austen : her love of theatre and why she works in Hollywood / Paula Byrne.
- Author
- Byrne, Paula
- Publication
- New York : Harper Perennial, 2017.
- ©2017
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| Text | Request in advance | PR4038.P4 B97 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 20 cm
- Summary
- Jane Austen loved the theatre. She learned much of her art from a long tradition of English comic drama and took joyous participation in amateur theatricals and her visits to the theatre in London and Bath. Her juvenilia, then 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Mansfield Park' and 'Emma' were shaped by the arts of theatrical comedy. Her admiration for drama's dialogue, characterisation, plotting, exits and entrances is why she has been dramatised so successfully on screen in the last twenty years -- and these versions are at the centre of her continuing fame, culminating in her celebration on the £10 note. From the stage adaptations of Austen's novels to modern classics, including the BBC 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Persuasion', Emma Thompson's 'Sense and Sensibility', and the phenomenally brilliant and successful 'Clueless', 'The Comic Muse' presents an Austen not of prim manners and genteel calm, but filled with wild comedy and outrageous behaviour.
- Uniform Title
- Jane Austen and the theatre
- Alternative Title
- Jane Austen and the theatre
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Note
- Originally published as : Jane Austen and the theatre. London : Hambledon and London, 2002.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- List of illustrations -- Foreword to the new edition -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations. Introduction. Part 1 The novelist and the theatre : Private theatricals -- The professional theatre -- Plays and actors. Part 2 The theatre and the novels : Early works -- From play to novel -- Sense and Sensibility -- Pride and Prejudice -- Lovers' Vows -- Mansfield Park -- Emma -- Why she is a hit in Hollywood. Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9780062674494
- 0062674498
- OCLC
- 1005487028
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library