Reading Adaptations - Novels and Verse Narratives on the Stage, 1790-1840

Reading Adaptations provides an original introduction to the
widespread and extremely popular practice of stage adaptation in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

List of contents

Introduction - adaptation and the ideologies of genre; "Caleb Williams" and "The Iron Chest"; "another and the same" -repetition and representation in adaptations of "Scott's "The Lady of the Lake"; adapting the national myth - stage versions of Scott's "Ivanhoe"; the professional writer - adaptations of Dickens's early novels; conclusion - reading adaptations.

Product details

• Authors: Baggy Cox, Philip Cox
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2012
• EAN: 9780719053412
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-5341-2
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 252 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet