Speed the plot: six playwrights parlay their dramatic themes into new fiction. (New Books).
American Theatre, November, 2002 by Gener, Randy
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In his lifetime, Henry James hankered after popular and commercial success on the stage. Not content with creating some of the finest, subtlest fiction of his age, James broke his back and heart trying to write a hit play. His efforts to become a dramatist ended in disaster when on the first night of Guy Domville in 1895 he received thunderous boos from the gallery; it was the most humiliating event of his literary career.
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More than a century later--when stage and film adaptations of James's novels have proven to have stronger legs than his now-forgotten plays--the situation ...
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