The Great Gatsby - The 1926 Broadway Script

The cultural ubiquity of The Great Gatsby is such that it is tempting to think we know almost all there is to say about it. But F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous work still has the capacity to surprise us. Perhaps few admirers of the novel know that it was also adapted for the stage by Owen Davis. In 1926 a successful production ran at the Ambassador Theater in New York City. This edition presents, for the first time in print, the original Broadway script: a fascinating social and literary document, now all but forgotten. The play re-forged Fitzgerald's novel into a fast-moving dramatization of parties and bootlegging, dancing and drinking, hot jazz, adultery and violence. It afforded an evening of first-rate entertainment for Manhattan theatergoers. Incorporating photographs of the original sets and actors, reviews, and publicity pasted into Fitzgerald's scrapbooks, this volume lifts the curtain anew on a singular drama.

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• Authors: Anne M. Daniel, James L. W. West III
• Assisted by: Anne Margaret Daniel (Editor), Anne Margaret (New School University Daniel (Editor), James L. W. West III (Editor), James L. W. (Pennsylvania State University) West III (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781009385220
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0938522-0
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 223 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; New York, New York City, English, DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Theatre Studies, c 1920 to c 1929, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Plays, Playscripts, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form