Book contents
- Modern British Drama on Screen
- Modern British Drama on Screen
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “That filth from which the glamour is not even yet departed”: adapting Journey’s End
- Chapter 2 Playful banter in Shaw’s Pygmalion
- Chapter 3 Knowing your place: David Lean’s film adaptation of Noël Coward’s This Happy Breed
- Chapter 4 The Browning Version revisited
- Chapter 5 Screening for serious people a trivial comedy: Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
- Chapter 6 The British New Wave begins: Richardson’s Look Back in Anger
- Chapter 7 The shift from stage to screen: space, performance, and language in The Knack . . . and How to Get It
- Chapter 8 See-thru desire and the dream of gay marriage: Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane on stage and screen
- Chapter 9 Sleuth on screen: adapting masculinities
- Chapter 10 Educating Rita and the Pygmalion effect: gender, class, and adaptation anxiety
- Chapter 11 The madness of Susan Traherne: adapting David Hare’s Plenty
- Chapter 12 “A Tom Stoppard Film”: agency and adaptation in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
- Chapter 13 Rewriting history: Alan Bennett’s collaboration with Nicholas Hytner on the adaptations of The Madness of George III and The History Boys
- Filmography
- Index
Chapter 2 - Playful banter in Shaw’s Pygmalion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Modern British Drama on Screen
- Modern British Drama on Screen
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “That filth from which the glamour is not even yet departed”: adapting Journey’s End
- Chapter 2 Playful banter in Shaw’s Pygmalion
- Chapter 3 Knowing your place: David Lean’s film adaptation of Noël Coward’s This Happy Breed
- Chapter 4 The Browning Version revisited
- Chapter 5 Screening for serious people a trivial comedy: Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
- Chapter 6 The British New Wave begins: Richardson’s Look Back in Anger
- Chapter 7 The shift from stage to screen: space, performance, and language in The Knack . . . and How to Get It
- Chapter 8 See-thru desire and the dream of gay marriage: Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane on stage and screen
- Chapter 9 Sleuth on screen: adapting masculinities
- Chapter 10 Educating Rita and the Pygmalion effect: gender, class, and adaptation anxiety
- Chapter 11 The madness of Susan Traherne: adapting David Hare’s Plenty
- Chapter 12 “A Tom Stoppard Film”: agency and adaptation in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
- Chapter 13 Rewriting history: Alan Bennett’s collaboration with Nicholas Hytner on the adaptations of The Madness of George III and The History Boys
- Filmography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Modern British Drama on Screen , pp. 31 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013