The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script

Edited with Introduction and Notes by James L. W. West III,Anne Margaret Daniel

ISBN 10: 1009385224 / ISBN 13: 9781009385220

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009385224
• ISBN 13: 9781009385220
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The cultural ubiquity of The Great Gatsby is such that it is tempting to think we know almost all there is to say about it. But F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous work still has the capacity to surprise us. Perhaps few admirers of the novel know that it was also adapted for the stage by Owen Davis. In 1926 a successful production ran at the Ambassador Theater in New York City. This edition presents, for the first time in print, the original Broadway script: a fascinating social and literary document, now all but forgotten. The play re-forged Fitzgerald's novel into a fast-moving dramatization of parties and bootlegging, dancing and drinking, hot jazz, adultery and violence. It afforded an evening of first-rate entertainment for Manhattan theatergoers. Incorporating photographs of the original sets and actors, reviews, and publicity pasted into Fitzgerald's scrapbooks, this volume lifts the curtain anew on a singular drama.

About the Authors

James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University.  He was the general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, complete in eighteen volumes.  The final volume was his variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (2019).

Anne Margaret Daniel teaches literature at The New School University. She is the editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald's I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories (2017) and the Norton Library edition of The Great Gatsby (2022). She and Jackson Bryer are preparing the selected letters of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald for publication.