Reading adaptations

Reading adaptationsAuthor: Philip Cox ISBN: 9780719053412 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 23 Mar 2000 Pages: 192 Format: Paperback softback Reading Adaptations provides an original introduction to the widespread and extremely popular practice of stage adaptation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Through a series of specific case studies, the book offers readings of stage versions of works by writers such as William

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