Mcteague: A Tale Of San Francisco
Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN13:
9780881457063
$19.25
Neal Bell's adaptation of Frank Norris's novel tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence, and finally murder as the result of jealousy and greed. "Frank Norris's novel McTeague is a panorama of the U S at the turn of the century: cowboys, gold mines, the immigrant experience, the advent of electricity and the movies. At the core is a gruesome cautionary tale, aptly retitled Greed by Erich Von Stroheim when he made a nine-hour film of it in 1923 ... In adapting it anew ... Neal Bell's script [tells] a story of downward mobility, about a miner turned dentist (sans diploma) who winds up defrocked and doomed in an abandoned mine." --William A Henry III, Time "Bell weaves a thick, dark tapestry of themes from MCTEAGUE's epic of incidents. Socially, the focus is on the helplessness of a rough simpleton in a rapidly urbanizing and professionalizing America -- and on the determination of immigrants and bootstrap-tuggers to cling to the middle class rather than fall into the Victorian abyss of want. Psychologically, it's on the metamorphosis of McTeague's innocent ignorance into murderous rage -- and Trina's sensible shift into masochistic self-denial. Morally, it's on the life-choking consequences of treating money as an end in itself rather than a means toward fulfilling human needs. Each of these levels resonates through the adaptation's writing." --Scott Rosenberg, San Francisco Examiner
- | Author: Frank Norris
- | Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated
- | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 140 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 088145706X
- | ISBN-13: 9780881457063
- Author:
- Frank Norris
- Publisher:
- Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated
- Publication Date:
- Mar 01, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 140 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 088145706X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780881457063