Adapting to the stage : theatre and the work of Henry James
An exploration of the work of Henry James and the stage. It 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.
History
195 pages ; 24 cm.
9781840146639, 184014663X
42389616
Introduction - abandoning the soliloquy/staging the narrator. Part 1 Two contexts - the theatre and the oeuvre: psychological space in the "Summerscroft Group" and the late plays; 1881-1894 - well-made drama; "a projected form" ellipsis and the third wall; abandoning the soliloquy. Part 2 "The theatrical straightjacket" - the other house and the spoils of Poynton: the "cultivation of limits"; "The Other House" -psychology embodied; Fleda's sense of the past - the "poetry of something sensible gone"; the material self.
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