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

di Paula Byrne (Autore)

Antonia Beamish (Narratore)

William Collins, 2017

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 loved the theatre. She learned much of her art from a long tradition of English comic drama and took joyous participation in amateur theatricals. 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 £10 note. Austen expert and author of The Real Jane Austen, Paula Byrne looks at stage adaptations of Austen’s novels (including one called Miss Elizabeth Bennet by A. A. Milne) 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 Genius of Jane Austen presents an Austen not of prim manners and genteel calm, but filled with wild comedy and outrageous behaviour. In this biography, Byrne, the bestselling author, explores Austen's love for the performing arts and how it influenced her work. She delves into the 19th century theatre scene, providing a new perspective on one of the best literary figures of the time. Her criticism of Austen's work is insightful, making this book a top pick for any Austen fan. For fans of Olivia Laing (Everybody), Andrew Lownie (John Buchan), Lucy Worsley (Agatha Christie), Colm Tóibín (The Master), and Devoney Looser (The Making of Jane Austen).

• Autore: Paula Byrne
• Narratore: Antonia Beamish
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 11:45:00
• Anno edizione: 2017
• Editore: William Collins
• EAN: 9780008225681

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