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Albert Nobbs is a 2011 period drama film directed by Rodrigo García and starring Glenn Close. The screenplay, by Close, John Banville and Gabriella Prekop, is based on the 1927 novella Albert Nobbs by George Moore.
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- Artist and Art Critic
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Although at present George Moore is mostly remembered for his masterpiece, Esther Waters, he was one of the most influential and versatile Anglo-Irish writers of the turn of the 19th century. Moore is known today as a leading propagator of Naturalism in English and Irish literature, but he was also a Modernist in his rebellion against Victorian mor...
In 1883, Moore published his first novel, A Modern Lover, which was a major departure from the Victorian conventions of novel writing. It was a realistic portrayal of a second-rate painter's amoral life although the novel's erotic descriptions are tactfully confined to mere handclasps and kisses. The book was originally rejected by Bentley and Sons...
Moore's prodigious output includes a number of short stories which are no less significant than his major novels. In 1895, he published his first collection, Celibates, which deals with such themes such as repressed homosexuality, lesbianism, and transvestism. In 1903, Moore published The Untilled Field, which is now regarded as the first significa...
George Moore contributed significantly to the development of autobiography. He published four fictionalised autobiographies, in which he blended “the essay, anecdote, poetry, straightforward factual narration, invented dialogue, and reverie to create a distinctive and original form of autobiography.” (Eakin and Gerber 48) In 1886, he published Conf...
Among his numerous artistic interests, Moore was also interested in the theatre and wrote several dramatic plays which are less significant than his novels, short stories and autobiographies. His first play, in verse, Martin Luther: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1879), was never produced. In 1893, he wrote The Strike at Arlingford, which was produced by ...
George Moore's father, apart from being an Irish landlord and politician, was an amateur painter, and he may have inspired his eldest son to become an artist. Moore, as he admitted in Hail and Farewell!was also motivated to become a painter by his voyeristic interest in women. I am penetrated through and through by an intelligent, passionate, dream...
Blissett, William F. “George Moore and Literary Wagnerism”, Comparative Literature, 13.1 (Winter 1961): 52-71. Brown, Malcolm. George Moore: a Reconsideration. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955. Cave, Richard A. A Study of the Novels of George Moore. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe; 1978. Chaikin, Milton. “The Composition of George Moore's...
In 1977, a play, La Vie Singulière d’Albert Nobbs, adapted from the Moore story, was written and directed by the French theatre director Simone Benmussa, and performed at the Théâtre d’Orsay, Paris.
- Mary Noonan
- 2020
This article models an approach to quare Irish female erotohistoriography through analyzing George Moore's 1918 novella ‘Albert Nobbs’ 1 (along with two key stage and screen adaptations of Moore's work), and Emma Donoghue's 1996 stage play, Ladies and Gentlemen.
- Charlotte McIvor
- 2013
Apr 30, 2020 · The film Albert Nobbs, co-written by Glenn Close and John Banville and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, was released in 2011. In both cases, decisions had to be made about how to present Albert’s thoughts.
- Siobhan Chapman
- src@liverpool.ac.uk
- 2020
Feb 26, 2015 · (1993). The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs: Subversive Rhetoric and Feminist Ideology. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 34-54.
The short story “Albert Nobbs” by the Irish novelist George Moore first appeared in A Story-Tellers Holiday, in 1918. In 1977, a play, La Vie Singulière d’Albert Nobbs, adapted from the Moore story, was written and directed by the French theatre director Simone Benmussa, and performed at the Théâtre d’Orsay, Paris.
