The genius of Jane Austen : her love of theatre and why she works in Hollywood
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Published
New York : Harper Perennial, 2017.
Edition
First U.S. Harper Perennial edition, Updated edition, New edition.
ISBN
9780062674494, 0062674498
Physical Desc
xvii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Arlington - Adult | 823.7 BYR | On Shelf |
Belmont Beech St. - Adult | 820.9 AUSTEN,J./ BYR | Billed |
Cambridge - Adult | 823.7 Byrne | On Shelf |
Lexington - Adult | 823.7 Au74byg | On Shelf |
Medford - Adult | 823 Austen B. | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Harper Perennial, 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First U.S. Harper Perennial edition, Updated edition, New edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780062674494, 0062674498
Notes
General Note
Originally published as: Jane Austen and the theatre. London : Hambledon and London, 2002.
General Note
Updated edition originally published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2017.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-321) and index.
Description
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 £10 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.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Knowledge.
Theater -- History -- 18th century.
Theater -- History -- 19th century.
Women novelists, English -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Knowledge.
Theater -- History -- 18th century.
Theater -- History -- 19th century.
Women novelists, English -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Byrne, P. (2017). The genius of Jane Austen: her love of theatre and why she works in Hollywood (First U.S. Harper Perennial edition, Updated edition, New edition.). Harper Perennial.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Byrne, Paula. 2017. The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood. Harper Perennial.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Byrne, Paula. The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood Harper Perennial, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Byrne, Paula. The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood First U.S. Harper Perennial edition, Updated edition, New edition., Harper Perennial, 2017.
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