The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood

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

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword to the New Edition

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

The Novelist and the Theatre

Private Theatricals

The Professional Theatre

Plays and Actors

The Theatre and the Novels

Early Works

From Play to Novel

Sense and Sensibility

Pride and Prejudice

Lovers’ Vows

Mansfield Park

Emma

Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood

Illustrations

Picture Section

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Also by Paula Byrne

About the Author

About the Publisher

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Intriguingly, one of the playlets in the collection carries the same plot-line as Austen’s Emma. In Cecilia and Marian, a young, wealthy girl befriends a poor labourer’s daughter and ‘tastes the happiness of doing good’ when she feeds her new playmate plum cake and currant jelly:

Cecilia had now tasted the happiness of doing good. She walked a little longer in the garden, thinking how happy she had made Marian, how grateful Marian had shewed herself, and how her little sister would be pleased to taste currant jelly. What will it be, said she, when I give her some ribbands and a necklace! Mama gave me some the other day that were pretty enough; but I am tired of them now. Then I’ll look in my drawers for some old things to give her. We are just of a size, and my slips would fit her charmingly. Oh! how I long to see her well drest.54

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