Includes filmography. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"That filth from which the glamour is not even yet departed" : adapting Journey's end / Lawrence Napper -- Playful banter in Shaw's Pygmalion / Douglas McFarland -- Knowing your place : David Lean's film adaptation of Noël Coward's This happy breed / Neil Sinyard -- The Browning version revisited / Marcia Landy -- Screening for serious people a trivial comedy : Wilde's The importance of being earnest / Tom Ryall -- The British new wave begins : Richardson's Look back in anger / Steve Nicholson -- The shift from stage to screen : space, performance, and language in The knack...and how to get it / Christine Geraghty -- See-thru desire and the dream of gay marriage : Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane on stage and screen / James Campbell -- Sleuth on screen : adapting masculinities / Monika Pietrzak-Franger -- Education Rita and the Pygmalion effect : gender, class, and adaptation anxiety / Cynthia Lucia -- The madness of Susan Traherne : adapting David Hare's Plenty / Tiffany Gilbert -- "A Tom Stoppard film" : agency and adaptation in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead / Elizabeth Rivlin -- Rewriting history : Alan Bennett's collaboration with Nicholas Hytner on the adaptations of The madness of George III and The history boys / Joseph H. O'Mealy.
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