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The genius of Jane Austen : her love of theatre and why she works in Hollywood

Byrne, Paula, author

2017

Overview

Jane Austen loved the theatre. She learned much of her art from a long tradition of English comic drama and took joyous participation in amateur theatricals and her visits to the theatre in London and Bath. Her juvenilia, then 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Mansfield Park' and 'Emma' were shaped by the arts of theatrical comedy. Her admiration for drama's dialogue, characterisation, plotting, exits and entrances is why she has been dramatised so successfully on screen in the last twenty years -- and these versions are at the centre of her continuing fame, culminating in her celebration on the ¹10 note. From the stage adaptations of Austen's novels to modern classics, including the BBC 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Persuasion', Emma Thompson's 'Sense and Sensibility', and the phenomenally brilliant and successful 'Clueless', 'The Comic Muse' presents an Austen not of prim manners and genteel calm, but filled with wild comedy and outrageous behaviour.

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Subject: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Knowledge. / Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Criticism and interpretation. / Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. / Theater History 18th century. / Theater History 19th century. / Women novelists, English 18th century History and criticism. / Women novelists, English 19th century History and criticism. / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical. / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary. / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Women. / Art. / Theater. / Women novelists, English.
• ISBN: 9780062674494, 0062674498

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR4036.B923 2017	1	BOOK	GENERAL