Overview
Four superlative stage adaptations by contemporary playwrights, giving
bold new interpretations of classic novels This volume, relaunching the
Frontline Intelligence series, contains stage adaptations by
contemporary dramatists of well-known, well-loved classics. 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. The introduction by Michael Fry discusses the
issue of adapting classics in context.