The Genius of Jane Austen : Her Love of Theatre and Why She is a Hit in Hollywood, Paula Byrne

The Genius of Jane Austen : Her Love of Theatre and Why She is a Hit in Hollywood, Paula ByrneNew Hardback A radical look at Jane Austen As you've never seen her as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain's 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,

The bestselling collection of poetry and prose from the Ted Hughes Award-winning author of Nobody Told Me

’ In this delightful book – the perfect gift for all insomniacs – are collected a splendid variety of entertainments devised to help pass 'the wakeful hours'

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