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The Theatre of Joseph Conrad

Reconstructed Fictions

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  • © 2005

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  1. Richard J. Hand
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Why Conrad’s Plays?

    • Richard J. Hand
    Pages 1-5

  3. A Jolly Cold World: An Introduction to the Theatre of Joseph Conrad

    • Richard J. Hand
    Pages 6-19

  4. A Tragedy in Modern Life: One Day More

    • Richard J. Hand
    Pages 20-52

  5. A Grim and Weird Play: Basil Macdonald Hastings’s Victory

    • Richard J. Hand
    Pages 53-86

  6. A Play of Unbearable Horror: Laughing Anne

    • Richard J. Hand
    Pages 87-125

  7. A Most Disturbing Play: The Secret Agent

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    Pages 126-164

  8. Conclusion: A Terribly Searching Thing

    • Richard J. Hand
    Pages 165-168

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 169-192
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Although the dramatic dimension to Joseph Conrad's fiction is frequently acknowledged, his own experiments in drama have traditionally been marginalized. However, in all of Conrad's plays we see a distinct effort to investigate seriously the dramatic form and some of his plays are startlingly ahead of their time. Furthermore, all of the plays are adaptations and comprise One Day More , based on Tomorrow , Laughing Anne , based on Because of the Dollars, Victory: A Drama and The Secret Agent . The creation of these reveals much about the history, theory and practice of this fascinating cultural process.

About the author

RICHARD J. HAND is Reader in Theatre and Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. His principal research interest is the theory and pratice of adaptation across a variety of media and genre with a special interest in the dramatization of Joseph Conrad's fiction.

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