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Overview
This book offers a compelling examination of performed adaptations of Stevenson's masterpiece, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Rose investigates how a single text, adapted many times in the past century, can serve to elucidate certain shifts in cultural attitudes. Providing an analysis of the relation between culture and performance, the author argues that Stevenson's adapters have infused the original story with concerns about issues of race, class, gender, and economics.
Synopsis
This book offers a compelling examination of performed adaptations of Stevenson's masterpiece, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Rose investigates how a single text, adapted many times in the past century, can serve to elucidate certain shifts in cultural attitudes. Providing an analysis of the relation between culture and performance, the author argues that Stevenson's adapters have infused the original story with concerns about issues of race, class, gender, and economics.
Booknews
Using Robert Louis Stevenson's classic short story as the example, investigates how a class of ideas is derived and culled from adaptations of specific narrative sources, and how those adaptation-born motifs assume places of importance in the body of popular-cultural references even though they do not appear in the original text that was adapted. His treatment of stage, screen, television, and radio versions is chronological from 1887 to 1990. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)