{"product_id":"the-genius-of-jane-austen-her-love-of-theatre-and-why-she-is-a-hit-in-hollywood-2018-paperback","title":"The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood [2018] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eA radical look at Jane Austen as you've never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. \u003cem\u003eThe Genius of Jane Austen\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eJane 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\u003cem\u003e Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEmma\u003c\/em\u003e were shaped by the arts of theatrical comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eHer 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 GBP10 note.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eAusten expert and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Real Jane Austen\u003c\/em\u003e, Paula Byrne looks at stage adaptations of Austen's novels (including one called \u003cem\u003eMiss Elizabeth Bennet\u003c\/em\u003e by A. A. Milne) to modern classics, including the BBC\u003cem\u003e Pride and Prejudice\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Persuasion\u003c\/em\u003e, Emma Thompson's \u003cem\u003eSense and Sensibility\u003c\/em\u003e, and the phenomenally brilliant and successful\u003cem\u003e Clueless\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Genius of Jane Austen\u003c\/em\u003e presents an Austen not of prim manners and genteel calm, but filled with wild comedy and outrageous behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Byrne, Paula","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":54392203542867,"sku":"XE80008225698","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/byrne-paula-the-genius-of-jane-austen-her-love-of-theatre-and-why-she-is-a-hit-in-hollywood-2018-paperback-xe80008225698-1250900409.jpg?v=1784890270","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/the-genius-of-jane-austen-her-love-of-theatre-and-why-she-is-a-hit-in-hollywood-2018-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}