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Paula Byrne
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood
Hay Festival 2017,
A radical look at Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. Byrne celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time.