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

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By (author): Paula Byrne

A radical look at Jane Austen as youve never seen her as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britains 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 dramas 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 Austens novels (including one called Miss Elizabeth Bennet by A. A. Milne) to modern classics, including the BBC Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion, Emma Thompsons 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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 250g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Jul 2018
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008225698

About Paula Byrne

Paula Byrne is the author the bestselling biographies Perdita Mad World The Real Jane Austen Belle and Kick. She is founder and chief executive of ReLit the Bibliotherapy Foundation a charity devoted to the mental health benefits of reading. She is married to Sir Jonathan Bate and lives in Oxford.

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