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The Power of Stage Adaptations: Exploring Characterization and Narrative in Fiction

This paper delves into the dynamic interplay between stage adaptations and fictional characters, highlighting how theatrical interpretations shape our understanding of narrative. It examines the significance of casting choices, the effects of celebrity on character perception, and how adaptations can recontextualize original texts. By analyzing works like Cibber’s "Apology" and Behn’s "Oroonoko," the study illuminates how narrative voice contributes to character awareness and the haunting legacy of performance in literature.

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The Power of Stage Adaptations: Exploring Characterization and Narrative in Fiction

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  1. Ghostly Presences Elaine McGirr (elaine.mcgirr@rhul.ac.uk) Departments of English and Drama Royal Holloway

  2. How we envision character • The power of the stage to give body to fictional characters (e.g. theatrical adaptation) • The power of narrative to shape our imaginative vision of a character (e.g. ‘wrong’ casting) • How/why we think we ‘know’ fictional characters • Reading the original back through layers of theatrical adaptation; recharacterising the novel through the stage • Celebrity and Character

  3. Textual Haunting:Cibber’s Apology & Life • The Apology’s narrative voice gives (false) body to past stage presence • The present-ness of the Apology’s narrative voice and the novelistic ‘I’ • The text creates the character through which we read all other performances Mezzotint by and published by John Simon, after Giuseppe Grisoni, circa 1742 (NPG)

  4. Staging the Text Since 1776, Behn’sOroonoko(1688)has often been illustrated with performance images from Hawkesworth’s 1759 adaptation of Southerne’s 1695 stage adaptation.

  5. Celebrity and Character

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