“Telling My Side of Things”: Tolstoy Novellas into Monologue Drama

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dc.creatorCsikai, Zsuzsanna
dc.date2020-06-26
dc.description  The paper examines two drama adaptations of Tolstoy’s novellas, Nancy Harris’s The Kreutzer Sonata (2009) and Peter Reid’s Desire (2014), both recent additions to contemporary Irish theatre’s abundant number of adaptations as well as male monologue plays. The exploration of the adaptation strategies assesses how Harris and Reid engage with these nineteenth-century works so that the old narratives are endowed with new relevance. While Harris’s play, which often rises to a poetic quality, innovates with the use of on-stage live music, it remains set in Russia in the past, which makes it a powerful period piece with anachronistic treatment of the central theme of sexual jealousy. In contrast, Reid’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s novella with a similar theme actualizes and relocates the original, transferring it to Ireland in the present time, and through the changes introduced in the plot and character, the playwright creates a credible psychological landscape for twenty-first-century audiences. (ZsCs)
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dc.identifierhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7346
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherDebreceni Egyetemi Kiadó
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7346/6751
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2017 Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.sourceHungarian Journal of English and American Studies; Vol. 23 No. 1 (2017)
dc.source2732-0421
dc.source1218-7364
dc.subjectLeo Tolstoy
dc.subjectThe Kreutzer Sonata
dc.subjectNancy Harris
dc.subjectDesire
dc.subjectPeter Reid
dc.subjectIrish theatre
dc.title“Telling My Side of Things”: Tolstoy Novellas into Monologue Drama
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Article
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