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Jane Austen and Performance

2017-01-22 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-01-22
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Book Synopsis Jane Austen and Performance by : Marina Cano

Download or read book Jane Austen and Performance written by Marina Cano. This book was released on 2017-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen’s work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present. It unearths new and little-known Austen materials: from suffragette novels and pageants to school and amateur theatricals, passing through mid-twentieth-century representations in Scotland and America. The book concludes with an examination of Austen fandom based on an online survey conducted by the author, which elicited over 300 responses from fans across the globe. Through the lens of performative theory, this volume explores how Austen, her work and its afterlives, have aided the formation of collective and personal identity; how they have helped bring people together across the generations; and how they have had key psychological, pedagogical and therapeutic functions for an ever growing audience. Ultimately, this book explains why Austen remains the most beloved author in English Literature.

The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood

2017-05-18 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-05-18
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Book Synopsis The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood by : Paula Byrne

Download or read book The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood written by Paula Byrne. This book was released on 2017-05-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical look at Jane Austen As you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time.

Jane Austen and the Theatre

2006-03-16 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2006-03-16
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Book Synopsis Jane Austen and the Theatre by : Penny Gay

Download or read book Jane Austen and the Theatre written by Penny Gay. This book was released on 2006-03-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen was fascinated by theatre from her childhood. As an adult she went to the theatre whenever opportunity arose. Scenes in her novels often resemble plays, and recent film and television versions have shown how naturally dramatic her stories are. Yet the myth remains that she was 'anti-theatrical', and readers continue to puzzle about the real significance of the theatricals in Mansfield Park. Penny Gay's book describes for the first time the rich theatrical context of Austen's writing, and the intersections between her novels and contemporary drama. Gay proposes a 'dialogue' in Austen's mature novels with the various genres of eighteenth-century drama - laughing comedy, sentimental comedy and tragedy, Gothic theatre, early melodrama. She re reads the novels in the light of this dialogue to demonstrate Austen's analysis of the pervasive theatricality of the society in which her heroines must perform.

Jane Austen and William Shakespeare

2019-11-06 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2019-11-06
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Book Synopsis Jane Austen and William Shakespeare by : Marina Cano

Download or read book Jane Austen and William Shakespeare written by Marina Cano. This book was released on 2019-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection reflects on the historical, literary, critical and filmic links between the authors and their fates. Considering the implications of the popular cult of Austen and Shakespeare, the essays are interdisciplinary and comparative: ranging from Austen’s and Shakespeare’s biographies to their presence in the modern vampire saga Twilight, passing by Shakespearean echoes in Austen’s novels and the authors’ afterlives on the improv stage, in wartime cinema, modern biopics and crime fiction. The volume concludes with an account of the Exhibition “Will & Jane” at the Folger Shakespeare Library, which literally brought the two authors together in the autumn of 2016. Collectively, the essays mark and celebrate what we have called the long-standing “love affair” between William Shakespeare and Jane Austen—over 200 years and counting.

Playing Jane

2019
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Release : 2019
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Book Synopsis Playing Jane by : R. Filippi

Download or read book Playing Jane written by R. Filippi. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing Jane Austen is the original dramatization of Jane Austen's work. The collection was first published in 1895 as Duologues and Scenes from the Novels of Jane Austen Arranged and Adapted for Drawing-Room Performance by Victorian feminist and actor Rosina Filippi. Filippi adapted memorable scenes from Austen into one-act plays for performance, and along with stage directions and advice on the correct silks and muslins to wear, her parlor plays evoke the romance of Victorian drawing-room entertainment at its very best.

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