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Article: Adapting to the Stage: Theater and the Work of Henry James.
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2002
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Adapting to the Stage: Theatre and the Work of Henry James. By CHRIS GREENWOOD. (Studies in European Cultural Transition, 4) Aldershot, Burlington, VT, Singapore, and Sydney: Ashgate. 2000. ix + 195 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].
Anyone who has turned from intense absorption in James's late novels and short stories to the plays has had little difficulty in accepting a version of the Master's career where his longing for theatrical success was an embarrassing implausibility. The dialogue of extravagant cliche which runs roughly through the texture of James's fiction as a slub of inexpressive revelation, the giveaway to ethical or metaphysical abysses beneath society's ...