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Author : Penny Gay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521024846
Penny Gay describes for the first time the rich theatrical context of Austen's writing.
Author : Paula Byrne
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780008225674
A radical look at Jane Austen As you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time.
Author : Paula Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1847250475
Paula Byrne shows how Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Mansfield Park are all shaped by the comic drama of the period and by Jane Austen's own understanding of men and women as actors playing parts. >
Author : Paula Byrne
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062674500
Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this updated edition of Paula Byrne's debut book includes new material that explores the history of Austen stage adaptations, why her books work so well on screen, and what that reveals about one of the world's most beloved authors. Originally published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2003 as Jane Austen and the Theatre, Paula Byrne's first book was never made widely available in the US and is out of print today. An exploration of Austen's passion for the stage—she acted in amateur productions, frequently attended the theatre, and even scripted several early works in play form—it took a nuanced look at how powerfully her stories were influenced by theatrical comedy. This updated edition features an introduction and a brand new chapter that delves into the long and lucrative history of Austen adaptations. The film world's love affair with Austen spans decades, from A.A. Milne's "Elizabeth Bennet," performed over the radio in 1944 to raise morale, to this year's Love and Friendship. Austen's work has proven so abidingly popular that these movies are more easily identifiable by lead actor than by title: the Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility, the Carey Mulligan Northanger Abbey, the Laurence Olivier Pride and Prejudice. Byrne even takes a captivating detour into a multitude of successful spin-offs, including the phenomenally brilliant Clueless. And along the way, she overturns the notion of Jane Austen as a genteel, prim country mouse, demonstrating that Jane's enduring popularity in film, TV, and theater points to a woman of wild comedy and outrageous behavior. For lovers of everything Jane Austen, as well as for a new generation discovering her for the first time, The Genius of Jane Austen demonstrates why this beloved author still resonates with readers and movie audiences today.
Author : Isobel McArthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1839040467
A loving and irreverent all-female adaptation of Jane Austen's unrivalled literary classic.
Author : Paula Byrne
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055180866
Jane Austen enjoyed and was greatly interested in the theatre. Many of her novels, with their memorable individual characters, dramatic confrontations and surprising denouements, owe part of their effect to theatrical inspiration. The dra-matic impact of her novels is demonstrat-ed by the ease with which they have been adapted for television and film. In Jane Austen and the Theatre Paula Byrne makes clear the important part the theatre played in both Jane Austen's life and work. There is no doubt about Jane Austen's own passion for the stage. She went to the theatre in London and Bath whenever she could, acted in private theatricals, and wrote a number of her early works in play form. Living in a great age of English stage comedy, she drew inspiration from Sheridan as well as Shakespeare. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Mansfield Park are, as Paula Byrne shows, all shaped by the comic drama of the period and by Jane Austen's own understanding of men and women as actors playing parts.
Author : Laura Wade
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781786826374
What happens when the writer loses the plot? Emma Watson is nineteen and new in town. She's been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast. If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or worse: an eternity with their boorish brother and his awful wife. Luckily there are plenty of potential suitors to dance with, from flirtatious Tom Musgrave to castle-owning Lord Osborne, who's as awkward as he is rich. So far so familiar. But there's a problem: Jane Austen didn't finish the story. Who will write Emma's happy ending now? Based on her incomplete novel, this sparklingly witty play looks under the bonnet of Jane Austen and asks: what can characters do when their author abandons them?
Author : Lauren Gunderson,Margot Melcon
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822237006
A sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set two years after the novel ends, MISS BENNET continues the story, only this time with bookish middle-sister Mary as its unlikely heroine. Mary is growing tired of her role as dutiful middle sister in the face of her siblings’ romantic escapades. When the family gathers for Christmas at Pemberley, an unexpected guest sparks Mary’s hopes for independence, an intellectual match, and possibly even love.
Author : Janet Anne Munsil
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537569732
New, revised edition for 2016. Janet Munsil's witty, romantic, and ingenious adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved tale of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is remarkable for capturing the tone and compressing the complexity of the story into a fast-paced, funny, and fiercely romantic two hours on stage. Sold-out and held-over in numerous large professional theatres, including Canada's National Arts Centre, Theatre Calgary, and The Arts Club Stanley Theatre, this adaptation is also extremely popular with schools and community theatres for its clarity, comedy, and large number of great acting roles - especially for women. "Worth ovations - a sell-out hit." Calgary Sun "Remarkable . . . a fine and faithful adaptation Austen's novel captures the tone and compresses the complexity of the story." - Burnaby Now "Delightful...breathes life into the novel, transforming Austen's wry, verbal humour into lightness and gaiety, while not overlooking the novel's darker themes." - Vancouver Courier "Vivid, eloquent, and very funny." - Ottawa Citizen "Simple, crisp elegance - downright brilliantly conceived." - Brokenleg Review "Funny, fierce, and romantic. Undeniably engaging." - Calgary Herald "Blazingly fast and funny . . . (Austen) purists may breathe easy. Perfectly accessible to romance fans, and those who can tolerate a little romance with their comedy." - Apt613.ca
Author : Natalie Jenner
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250248725
* INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." —People "Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people—a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others—could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society. A powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all, Natalie Jenner's The Jane Austen Society is destined to resonate with readers for years to come.
Author : Stephanie Barron
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553578171
As Christmas of 1804 approaches, Jane Austen finds herself "insupportably bored with Bath, and the littleness of a town." It is with relief that she accepts a peculiar commission from her Gentleman Rogue, Lord Harold Trowbridge—to shadow his niece, Lady Desdemona, who has fled to Bath to avoid the attentions of the unsavoury Earl of Swithin. But Jane's idle diversion turns deadly when a man is discovered stabbed to death in the Theatre Royal. Adding to the mystery is an unusual object found on the victim's body—a pendant that contains a portrait of an eye! As Jane's fascination with scandal leads her deeper into the investigation, it becomes clear that she will not uncover the truth without some dangerous playacting of her own....
Author : Jane Austen,David M. Shapard
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307950239
From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Persuasion that makes the beloved novel an even more satisfying and fulfilling read. Here is the complete text of Persuasion with hundreds of annotations on facing pages, including: ● Explanations of historical context ● Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings ● Definitions and clarifications ● Literary comments and analysis ● Plentiful maps and illustrations ● An introduction, a bibliography, and a detailed chronology of events Packed with all kinds of illuminating information—from what Bath and Lyme looked like at the time to how “bathing machines” at seaside resorts were used to how Wentworth could have made a fortune from the Napoleonic Wars—David M. Shapard’s delightfully entertaining edition brings Austen’s novel of second chances vividly to life.
Author : Amanda Elyot
Publisher : Crown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307345325
A tale of time travel, true love, and Jane Austen New York actress C.J. Welles, a die-hard Jane Austen fan, is on the verge of landing her dream role: portraying her idol in a Broadway play. But during her final audition, she is mysteriously transported to Bath, England, in the year 1801. And Georgian England, with its rigid and unforgiving social structure and limited hygienic facilities, is not quite the picturesque costume drama C.J. had always imagined. Just as she wishes she could click her heels together and return to Manhattan, C.J. meets the delightfully eccentric Lady Dalrymple, a widowed countess who takes C.J. into her home, introducing her as a poor relation to Georgian society—including the dashing Earl of Darlington and his cousin, Jane Austen! When a crisis develops, C.J.—in a race against time—becomes torn between two centuries. An attempt to return to her own era might mean forfeiting her blossoming romance with the irresistible Darlington and her growing friendship with Jane Austen, but it’s a risk she must take. And in the midst of this remarkable series of events, C.J. discovers something even more startling—a secret from her own past that may explain how she wound up in Bath in the first place.
Author : Marcie Frank
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684481675
"The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen traces the novel's relation to the theater over the course of the long eighteenth century, arguing that the familiar account of the novel as 'new' and distinct from other literary genres risks distorting a true reckoning of the form by failing to engage with the borrowings and departures from other more familiar genres, particularly drama. The Novel Stage traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel. These genres were shared across print and performance, media that were not construed as opposites in a world in which individual silent reading took place beside playgoing, play-reading, amateur theatricals, and sociable reading aloud. The book thus expands an overly narrow conception of the novel as the genre of realism or domesticity whose highest achievement is its representation of characters' mental lives by describing the influence of the stage and its genres. Beginning in the later 1600s with Aphra Behn, The Novel Stage concludes with a chapter on some novelists of the Romantic period and a coda about Victorian novels. The Novel Stage's account of the novel provides an enriched, because more specific, sense of its formal accomplishments that drew on this ensemble of cultural forms and turns that lens back onto drama"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Elaine Avila
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780578104201
A collection of thought-provoking, adventurous feminist plays by playwright Elaine Avila that push at theatrical form, explore gender and identity, and human life on this planet. With an introduction by American director Ted Gregory.