Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma

Flaubert's novel adapted for the stage by Fay Weldon, well-known novelist and controversialist.

About the author

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821—8 May 1880) was a French novelist, considered the preeminent exponent of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857), a realistic portrayal of bourgeois life, which led to a trial on charges of the novel's alleged immorality.
Fay Weldon (1931–2023) was an English author, essayist and playwright. Her novels include The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983). Her adaptation of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, subtitled Breakfast with Emma, was staged by Shared Experience in 2003.

Summary

Flaubert's masterpiece about an infidelity with tragic consequences, dramatised for Shared Experience by the acclaimed novelist.

Product details

• Authors: Gustave Flaubert, Fay Weldon
• Assisted by: Fay Weldon (Editor)
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2003
• EAN: 9781854597755
• ISBN: 978-1-85459-775-5
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 80 g
• Series: Shared Experience; Shared Experience; NHB Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts, Plays, playscripts, drama