The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script
by Edited by James L. W. West III and Anne Margaret Daniel
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Pub Date Apr 25 2024 | Archive Date Apr 01 2024
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Description
The cultural ubiquity of The Great Gatsby is such that it is tempting to think we know almost all there is to say about it. But F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous work still has the capacity to surprise us. Perhaps few admirers of the novel know that it was also adapted for the stage by Owen Davis. In 1926 a successful production ran at the Ambassador Theater in New York City. This edition presents, for the first time in print, the original Broadway script: a fascinating social and literary document, now all but forgotten. The play re-forged Fitzgerald's novel into a fast-moving dramatization of parties and bootlegging, dancing and drinking, hot jazz, adultery and violence. It afforded an evening of first-rate entertainment for Manhattan theatergoers. Incorporating photographs of the original sets and actors, reviews, and publicity pasted into Fitzgerald's scrapbooks, this volume lifts the curtain anew on a singular drama.
Advance Praise
'The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script will interest anyone who likes The Great Gatsby and fascinate anyone who loves it.' Scott Jordan Harris, author of Rosebud Sleds and Horses' Heads: 50 of Film's Most Evocative Objects
‘Meticulously edited by James L.W. West III and Anne Margaret Daniel, this authoritative edition of the 1926 stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby does more than fill a surprising gap in the scholarly canon. The play will also be entertaining and enlightening for students of the novel and the period – some may well judge it superior to many of the adaptations that have followed it. An essential contribution to Fitzgerald studies.' Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9781009385220 |
PRICE | $26.99 (USD) |