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"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.

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Book category Books in English Language Language: reference & general Creative writing & creative writing guides

• Full title: Contemporizing the Classics
• Subtitle: Poe, Shakespeare, Doyle
• Author: Gregory G Sarno
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 420
• EAN: 9780595339785
• ISBN: 9780595339785
• ID: 07360859
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Weight: 612 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. February 2005

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