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The Genius Of Jane Austen : Her Love Of Theatre And Why She Works In Hollywood

The Genius Of Jane Austen : Her Love Of Theatre And Why She Works In Hollywood

Byrne, Paula, author.
EBook 2017

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 b...

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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Criticism and interpretation
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Knowledge
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Women
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Theater History 18th century
Theater History 19th century
Women novelists, English
Women novelists, English 18th century History and criticism
Women novelists, English 19th century History and criticism
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ISBN:
9780062674500
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1 online resource
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Other Title:
Jane Austen and the theatre
Notes:
Originally published as: Jane Austen and the theatre. London : Hambledon and London, 2002
Updated edition originally published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2017
Electronic book
Electronic reproduction. New York HarperCollins 2017 Available via World Wide Web
Contents:
List of illustrations
Foreword to the new edition
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations. Introduction. Part 1 The novelist and the theatre : Private theatricals
The professional theatre
Plays and actors. Part 2 The theatre and the novels : Early works
From play to novel
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Lovers' Vows
Mansfield Park
Emma
Why she is a hit in Hollywood. Notes
Bibliography
Index
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3402172
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