East Lynne

Lisa Evans, Mrs. Henry Wood

Bloomsbury Academic, 2005 - Drama - 111 pages

A classic of Victorian literature, East Lynne was published in 1861. It was a sensational success, selling more than 500,000 copies and making its author as famous in her lifetime as Charles Dickens himself.
Beautiful, kind and unblemished, Lady Isabel Vane is the perfect wife and mother. Until, in a fit of jealousy, she leaves her neglectful husband and infant children to elope with her aristocratic suitor. Her fall from grace is absolute. Can she be redeemed? And will she ever see her children again?
Dramatic and moving, East Lynne draws aside the curtains of the respectable Victorian middle-classes to reveal their hypocrisy, cruelty and lust. And we witness the terrible punishment of those that dare to disobey a merciless moral code.

This dramatisation of East Lynne opened at the New Vic Theatre, Staffordshire, in June 2005.

Contents

• Section 1: 15
• Section 2: 17
• Section 3: 80

About the author

Lisa Evans writes for theatre, radio and television. Her original stage plays include Keep Smiling Through (Theatre by the Lake); Glory Glory (Duke’s Lancaster); The Day the Waters Came (Theatre Centre); Up The Duff (Theatre Royal, York); Once We Were Mothers (New Vic, Stoke); Getting to the Foot of the Mountain (Birmingham Rep) ; Christmas Without Herods (Women’s Theatre Group); Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home (Watford) She has adapted The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; East Lynne; Villette; The Maid of Buttermere; Frankenstein; and Jamaica Inn for the stage. In November 2011 Lisa was awarded the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Play for Children and Young People for The Day the Waters Came. Website: www.lisaevans.co.uk

Bibliographic information

• Title: East Lynne; Oberon Modern Plays
• Authors: Lisa Evans, Mrs. Henry Wood
• Contributor: Lisa Evans
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2005
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 29, 2008
• ISBN: 1840025891, 9781840025897
• Length: 111 pages
• Subjects: Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama / General