The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script by James L.W. West III Hardcover Book

Description: The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script by James L.W. West III, Anne Margaret Daniel The first-ever print edition of the script for the 1926 Broadway adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Owen Davis, 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner, and George Cukor, later of Hollywood fame, turned Fitzgeralds novel into a fast-moving drama of bootlegging, jazz and violence, resulting in an evening of first-rate entertainment for theatergoers. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher 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 Fitzgeralds 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 Fitzgeralds 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 Fitzgeralds scrapbooks, this volume lifts the curtain anew on a singular drama. Author Biography James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University. He was the general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, complete in eighteen volumes. The final volume was his variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (2019). Anne Margaret Daniel teaches literature at The New School University. She is the editor of F. Scott Fitzgeralds Id Die for You and Other Lost Stories (2017) and the Norton Library edition of The Great Gatsby (2022). She and Jackson Bryer are preparing the selected letters of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald for publication. Table of Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on the Text; Introduction; The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script; Annotations. Review Owen Daviss play The Great Gatsby, which had a successful Broadway run in 1926, reimagined and even recast Fitzgeralds book in ways that gave it resonance both as an expression of the Roaring Twenties zeitgeist, and after, as an approach to the ways the novel, in a new form, still tells the American story. With Anne Margaret Daniel and James L. W. West IIIs perceptive and instructive introduction providing context, this engrossing script has its own story to tell and insights to Fitzgerald to reveal. And like the novel, it cuts to the heart of America. Linda Patterson Miller, Distinguished Professor of English, Penn State AbingtonOwen Daviss stage dramatization of Fitzgeralds novel is, in more ways than one, a peep behind the scenes at Gatsbys life. Davis rearranged dialogue and chronology, while to sticking to the familiar story – rather in the manner of a jazz musician improvising on a standard. His hero is closer to bootlegger Gatz than playboy Gatsby. Anne Margaret Daniel and James L. W. West have unearthed a fascinating curiosity. Their introduction provides just the right amount of confidential information the audience needs, before the play begins. James Campbell, author of Talking at the Gates: A Life of James BaldwinWith Anne Margaret Daniels 2022 Norton Library edition and James L. W. West IIIs 2019 variorum edition, this books editors have each given us a superlative edition of The Great Gatsby. Together, they have done the same for the Broadway play adapted from it. 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 Films Most Evocative ObjectsShort of discovering a portal to the past or building a time machine, readers will never come closer to returning to Broadways Jazz Age heyday than with this edition of Owen Daviss 1926 theatrical adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Masterfully edited by Anne Margaret Daniel and James L. W. West III, Daviss script channels the melancholy spirit of Fitzgeralds classic while making the changes necessary for the tragic story of American aspiration to succeed on the stage, allowing us to appreciate why the show ran for more than 100 performances. Kirk Curnutt, executive director, the F. Scott Fitzgerald SocietyGatsby has a gangster gang, Buck Wilson is his chauffeur, Daisy and Myrtle meet at a party. This is not the novel but the playscript of the hit 1926 Broadway production of The Great Gatsby, and its a great read. Daniel and West have a major coup here with this edition. Bravo for their fascinating introduction, generous readers notes, and deep research. William Blaek, vice president, the F. Scott Fitzgerald SocietyThis edition of the 1926 Broadway script of The Great Gatsby by Owen Davis is a treasure on many counts. The play achieves the near-magical feat of capturing the soul of Fitzgeralds novel-even in spite of the fact that Davis extensively altered major details of the story. Its publication by Cambridge on the eve of the centennial of the first publication of the novel renders it an indispensable companion volume to Fitzgeralds masterpiece. Bryant Mangum, editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald in ContextMeticulously 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 Promotional The first-ever print edition of Owen Daviss adaptation of The Great Gatsby for Broadway, with photographs of the original production. Details ISBN1009385224 Author Anne Margaret Daniel Publisher Cambridge University Press ISBN-13 9781009385220 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by James L. W. West III Audience General Year 2024 Place of Publication Cambridge Alternative 9781009377508 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises ISBN-10 1009385224 DEWEY 812.52 Pages 142 Publication Date 2024-04-25 UK Release Date 2024-04-25 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159917466;

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