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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... the Faculty of English at Cambridge University and to Trinity College, Cambridge. I am also hugely indebted to Jean Chothia for supervising the research. ' An incident in the continuity of things ... THE Acknowledgements.
... things ... THE LOCATION OF HENRY JAMES'S DRAMA ... a record of movements in the air . ' Un tel théâtre , où se jouent les rapports secrets du visible et de l'invisible , suppose une utilisation nouvelle des moyens scéniques où la ...
... thing Henry did after the show closed (a month later) was to write a play for the most celebrated of contemporary actresses, Ellen Terry. To wish to describe James abandoning his theatrical ambitions after such a scene is to paint a far ...
... things we should like to do ; they are gifted as we should like to be ; they have mastered the accomplishments that we have had to give up [ ... ] through it all you never observe an awkwardness , a roughness , an accident , a crude ...
... Things With Words ) , authorises the events that occur before them . In this way Nanda can involve herself in the ... thing , on the part of the public , has been very characteristic , very English . ( SA 127–8 ) 9 To comment on the ...
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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 |