| 释义 |
- Adaptations
- Bibliography
- References
{{italic title}}Young Woodley is a 1925 play by the British writer John Van Druten. It concerns a schoolboy at a top British public school who falls in love with his headmaster's wife and is eventually expelled. Because of its negative depiction of public school life and its controversial subject matter the play was originally banned in the United Kingdom and was only staged in 1928.[1] However, it was a major success in the United States and Van Druten moved there to work.[2] The ban in Britain was eventually lifted and it ran for over 400 performances in the West End making a star of its lead Frank Lawton. It was revived at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2007.[3]It was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1925-1926. Adaptations{{Main article|Young Woodley (1928 film)|Young Woodley (1930 film)}}A 1928 silent version Young Woodley, directed by Thomas Bentley, was made at Cricklewood Studios but never released. In 1930 the play was adapted into a film by British International Pictures. It was directed again by Bentley with Lawton reprising his stage role. It also starred Madeleine Carroll, Frank Lawton and Sam Livesey. The film is notable for its stageiness and was not a success with audiences.[4] Bibliography- {{cite book|editor1-last=Cody|editor1-first=Gabrielle H.|editor2-last=Sprinchorn|editor2-first=Evert|title=The Columbia encyclopedia of modern drama|date=2007|publisher=Columbia university press|location=New York|isbn=9780231140324}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Kershaw|editor1-first=Baz|title=The Cambridge history of British theatre|date=2004|publisher=Cambridge Univ. Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=9780521651325|edition=1. publ.}}
- Richards, Jeffrey. The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain, 1930-1939. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.
References1. ^Kershaw p.161
2. ^Cody & Sprinchorn p.1417
3. ^Richards p.313
4. ^Richards p.314
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