Andrew Davies

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Manchester University Press, Jul 22, 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 227 pages
Andrew Davies is the creator of the British TV programs Pride and Prejudice, Othello, and The Way We Live Now. Although best known for his adaptations of the work of writers such as Jane Austen and George Eliot, he has written numerous original drama series, single plays, films, stage plays and books. This volume offers a critical appraisal of Davies's work, and assesses his contribution to British television.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Questions of authorship
8
Daviess nonadapted original
34
Daviess adaptations from
69
voices and genre
111
Distinguishing the televisual
147
Davies television criticism and authorship
177
LIST OF PROGRAMMES FILMS AND OTHER TEXTS
197
THE SIGNALMAN 1866 BY CHARLES DICKENS
207
THE INTRODUCTION OF MELMOTTE
217
INDEX
223
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Sarah Cardwell is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury