{"product_id":"9780008225674_the-genius-of-jane-austen-her-love-of-theatre-and-why-she-is-a-hit-in-hollywood","title":"The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'I relished every page … This is the best book on Jane Austen I have ever read’\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Compelling … a delightful and engrossing book … Byrne’s passion is nothing if not persuasive’\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWas Jane Austen a woman of prim manners and genteel calm? Or someone who behaved outrageously, filled with sharp wit and wild comedy?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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 £10 note.\u003c\/p\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":"Paula Byrne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47285280440469,"sku":"9780008225674","price":11.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008225674.jpg?v=1776992311","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008225674_the-genius-of-jane-austen-her-love-of-theatre-and-why-she-is-a-hit-in-hollywood","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}