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. |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 28
... witness of human evidence. An instance of this change in scale in James's writing is recorded in the movement from Poynton to Ricks in The Spoils of Poynton, from the show- home/art gallery/museum to the dowager's cottage or, to choose ...
... witness to it ( as he did ) implicated him in its lack of grandeur . When the Comédie Française visited London in 1879 James produced a catty and scathing review ( unsigned ) for the Nation , not of the work of the company , but rather ...
... witness to the French theatrical model so beloved of Sydney Grundy, the well-made play, and his subsequent involvement with avant-garde theatre developments (particularly those of the fourth wall and of its associated movement ...
... witness people's mental and physical reactions . The action of watching them variously threatening and achieving the world's potential beauties is the drama James recorded . Such a record constitutes a psychological drama . It is a ...
... witnesses for the delicacy of a 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 ...
Índice
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 |