- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Collins Educational (1 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0003230775
- ISBN-13: 978-0003230772
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 14.6 x 0.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,953,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
| |||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Authors
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
Product Description
Product Description
This dramatisation specially for schools of Wilkie Collins’ novel conveys the complex plot accessibly, while preserving the pace and tension of the book. The rich symbolism of the play opens up areas for discussion and the resource material relates the play to students’ own experience.
Playscript – the book contains a playscript dramatising Wilkie Collins’ pre-20th-century novel. The adaptation focuses on issues that are of interest in schools.
Resources following the playscript contain activities for drama (including role-play), reading, writing, and speaking and listening. These are accompanied by extension material, including extracts from modern and contemporary works for comparison, and documentary material. The resources are organised under the following headings:
• Staging the play
• Work on and around the script
• From novel to playscript (including the language of the novel)
• Life and times of Wilkie Collins
• Themes in and around the play (such as mental illness, mystery/detective story genre, melodrama, marriage and love, the supernatural, the role of women)
• Media.
From the Back Cover
Who could you trust if you had just escaped from a lunatic asylum? Walter and Marian are determined to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the woman in white who haunts them, even if it costs them their lives.
This exciting and accessible dramatisation for schools of Wilkie Collins’ novel captures its pace and tension, as well as its language and tone, and will appeal immediately to students. The play’s focus on the themes of mental illness and the role of women is reinforced in the resource material. Comparison work and a variety of enjoyable spoken, media, written and drama activities are included.
Strong male and female lead roles mean that the play is ideal for use in the English classroom, in drama studios or as a school production.
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organise and find favourite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Never having been a great fan of thrillers, I was slightly reluctant to read this one. It was so highly recommended that I resisisted and promptly lost a few days of the outswide world. It was completely unputadownable, beautifully written and thrilling from page 1 until the end.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
To most people, including myself, the prospect of reading a Victorian thriller/detective novel would not be immediately very appealing, but this remarkable novel was a revelation. It has pace, tension and strong characterisation. The author's technique of relating the story in the first person by a succession of the characters, both major and minor, results in a subtle shift of view and emphasis. I can see how the book created such a sensation when it first appeared and it deserves to be read more widely today.
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
