Frontline drama 4

Showing the process of adapting classics, this text brings together four stage and film adaptations which demonstrate how contemporary dramatists have transformed well-known novels.

The four novels are Jane Austen's "Persuasion" adapted by Nick Dear, Charles Dicken's "Great Expectations" adapted by John Clifford, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" adapted by Michael Fry, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" adapted by Phyllis Nagy.