Frontline Drama 4

Synopsis

Adapting Classics (Frontline Drama)

Adaptations of classics fill today's stages and screens.

This issue of Frontline Drama brings together four superlative stage adaptations which demonstrate how contemporary dramatists have transformed well-known novels into something bold and new.

Included are Jane Austen's Emma by Michael Fry, John Cleland's The Life and Times of Fanny Hill by April De Angelis, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations by John Clifford and George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss by Helen Edmundson.

Michael Fry's introduction sets the issue of adapting classics into context.