The Europeans on Broadway

Year 2014, Issue: 40, 21 - 36, 01.10.2014

Susan M. Griffin

Abstract

Henry James’s early work The Europeans has proved surprisingly difficult to adapt, both on screen and in the theater. This article reconstructs a version of the play Eugenia, written in 1957 by the dramatist Randolph Carter and starring Tallulah Bankhead, which attracted indifferent reviews and ran for a short time on Broadway. The play rewrites a considerable amount of the source-text, but perhaps the main reason for its short run was the problems experienced by the leading actress, rather than any problems experienced by the company with the adapted text

Keywords

Broadway, The Europeans, Henry James, Tallulah Bankhead, stage adaptation, Randolph Carter

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