Frontline Drama 4: Emma; Great Expectations; The Mill on the Floss; The Life and Times of Fanny Hill

by April De Angelis, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Helen Edmundson, J. Clifford

Overview

Four superlative stage adaptations by contemporary playwrights, giving bold new interpretations of classic novels

This volume, relaunching the Frontline Intelligence series, contains stage adaptations by contemporary dramatists of well-known, well-loved classics. Included are Jane Austen's "Emma" by Michael Fry, John Cleland's "The Life and Times of Fanny Hill" by April De Angelis, Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" by John Clifford and George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss" by Helen Edmundson. The introduction by Michael Fry discusses the issue of adapting classics in context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413704900
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/11/2006
Series:	Play Anthologies
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

April De Angelis is a British dramatist who began her career as an actress with the Monstrous Regiment theatre company in 1987. She began writing plays in 1987 and her work includes Jumpy, Breathless, Women in Law, Wanderlust, Visitants, Ironmistress, Crux, Frankenstein, The Life and Times of Fanny Hill, Hush, Greed, Soft Vengeance, Playhouse Creatures, The Positive Hour, A Warwickshire Testimony, A Laughing Matter, Headstrong, Wild East, Catch, and Wuthering Heights.

Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880), who wrote under the pseudonym George Eliot, was a leading English novelist, jourbanalist and translator. She wrote seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda.

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose works are among the most popular novels ever written. Her keen eye for social tension, and ear for taut, witty dialogue have delighted readers for centuries, while her novels have maintained historical importance through their analysis of the dependence of women on marriage to gain social standing and security. She has been widely adapted for both stage and screen, and continues to be among the most widely-read of late-18th-/early 19th-century writers.

Michael Fry is a highly regarded author and jourbanalist, and regular contributor to the Scotsman, the Herald and the Sunday Times. He is the author of a dozen books of Scottish history, including Wild Scots, Edinburgh and The Union.

Table of Contents

Emma; Great Expectations; The Mill on the Floss; The Life and Times of Fanny Hill