Contemporizing the Classics: Poe, Shakespeare, Doyle

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iUniverse, 2005 - 420 pages
Contemporizing the Classics: Poe, Shakespeare, Doyle is a how-to on the art and craft of transforming a classic into a feature-film screenplay with a modern storyline.

The introduction probes an issue that weaves throughout: role of artistic license in balancing fidelity to the original versus dramatic needs of the script.

Contemporization of a classic being the most flagrant form of dramatic license, the introduction presents three guidelines for a considered exercise thereof.

Each part debuts a feature-film script that resets a classic work(s) in the present.

Part One offers a contemporary visualization ofMacbeth, in the process turning an Elizabethan tragedy into a dramatic comedy.

Part Two applies the guidelines to several renowned works by Edgar Allan Poe.

Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles having frequently screened as a period piece, Part Three gives the hound a twenty-first century twist.

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Contents

Overture
3
Lady Macbeth
11
Notes
126
Poe
129
Overture
131
Masque
137
Notes
247
Doyle
251
Overture
253
Curse of the Baskervilles
255
Notes
378
Bibliography
381
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