Adapting to the Stage: Theatre and the Work of Henry JamesRoutledge, 01/11/2017 - 206 páginas 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 playwriting. Christopher Greenwood argues that these metaphors helped James to conceive himself as an artist who composed characters dramatically and visually, and in doing so sets his novels significantly apart from those of his contemporaries. In the introduction to the first part of the book, Greenwood examines James's career within the context of contemporary European and North American theatre, providing an appraisal of what James gained from contemporary theatre, his position in that milieu, and what he brought to it. Part 2 of the book focuses on two novels: "The Other House" and "The Spoils of Poynton", both of which illustrate the ways in which James used the mechanism of contemporary theatre to communicate a character's personality. Discussion of these two works is used to throw light on similar concerns that develop in James's later writing. |
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... manner of James's 'adaptation'. It was first conceived of as a play scenario in 1893, adapted into a novel in 1895/6 and thereafter re-adapted into a play in 1908. This process, as my first chapter indicates, was typical of the manner ...
... manner in which the French troupe were received : Indeed there came a time when the Comédie Française threatened to take rank with the weather , or with Mrs Langtry , as a subject only available for persons who had resigned themselves ...
... manners found in his fiction came to resemble that same possibility. What he said, at root what he believed and wanted to believe, was that people could live beautifully, with the aid of imagination, courage and tradition. Indeed the ...
... manner like Fleda's . The following is another instance of the imposition of what I have chosen to describe as spatial ellipsis . It occurs in the play of The Other House . The action , coming at the end of the first act and fulfilling ...
... manners and constraints not as inhibiting the expression of individuality , but rather as George Santanaya ... manner of the traditional English novel , and in the limits to the space and time within which his characters had to ...
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8 | |
Psychological Space in The Summersoft Group and the Late Plays | |
Ellipsis and the Fourth Wall | |
Abandoning the Soliloquy | |
Psychology Embodied | |
The Poetry of Something Sensibly Gone | |
The Material Self | |
Index | |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Adapting to the Stage: Theatre and the Work of Henry James Christopher Greenwood Visualização de excertos - 2000 |
Adapting to the Stage: Theatre and the Work of Henry James Chris Greenwood Pré-visualização indisponível - 2018 |
Adapting to the Stage: Theatre and the Work of Henry James Chris Greenwood Pré-visualização indisponível - 2017 |