Contemporizing the Classics: Poe, Shakespeare, Doyle (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780595339785)

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 of Macbeth, 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.

Author: Gregory G. Sarno
ISBN-10: 0595339786
ISBN-13: 9780595339785
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2005
Pages: 420
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.93d