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Page 273
... adaptation . This time it was a dramatic version of Lewis ' novel The Monk . Of all the well - known tales of terror , this was the most lurid and most famous . The novel was condemned in several quarters and many protested its sale to ...
... adaptation . This time it was a dramatic version of Lewis ' novel The Monk . Of all the well - known tales of terror , this was the most lurid and most famous . The novel was condemned in several quarters and many protested its sale to ...
Page 298
... adaptation of Pixérécourt's L'Homme à Trois Visages , but it seems that Lewis took his adaptation from the German romance upon which Pixérécourt had adapted his play . Lewis began work on an adaptation of the romance by J. H. D. ...
... adaptation of Pixérécourt's L'Homme à Trois Visages , but it seems that Lewis took his adaptation from the German romance upon which Pixérécourt had adapted his play . Lewis began work on an adaptation of the romance by J. H. D. ...
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... adapt a piece by Scott , long before the publication of his first novels . In 1809 Dibdin wrote an adaptation of The Lady of the Lake which he called a " Melodramatic Romance in Two acts from Sir Walter Scott . " ( 21 ) Although the ...
... adapt a piece by Scott , long before the publication of his first novels . In 1809 Dibdin wrote an adaptation of The Lady of the Lake which he called a " Melodramatic Romance in Two acts from Sir Walter Scott . " ( 21 ) Although the ...
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