Duologues and scenes from the novels of Jane Austen : $b Arranged and adapted for drawing-room performance
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"Duologues and scenes from the novels of Jane Austen" by Filippi and Austen is a collection of theatrical adaptations written in the late 19th century. It selects and reshapes key moments from Austen’s fiction into short duologues and brief scenes for drawing-room performance, with minimal staging but strict period costume. Aimed at cultivated amateurs, it offers practical stage directions, light narrative links, and pen-and-ink costume notes to bring beloved characters from Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice to life.
The opening of this collection presents a lively preface arguing that Austen is inherently dramatic and best played without scenery, while insisting on accurate 1790s–1800s dress and offering guidance for amateur staging. It then launches into fully scripted scenes: Catherine Morland and Isabella Thorpe in the Bath Pump Room giddily bond over “horrid” novels and flirtations; Mr and Mrs John Dashwood coolly whittle down a promised settl
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