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Whartonian reincarnation.(appreciating Edith Wharton )(Brief Article)

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From: American Theatre
Date: 20050701
Author:Johnson, Cassandra

LENOX, MASS.: Shakespeare & Company is intimately acquainted with Edith Wharton (in photo)--once housed on her impeccably restored estate, the company has dramatized the author's fiction for more than 25 years. According to resident adaptor Dennis Krausnick, Wharton was a "brilliant satirist" whose aristocratic upbringing informed her sharp criticism of the turn-of-the-century nouveau riche, while her imagination rendered equally authentic portraits of poverty. This season Krausnick adapts two Wharton stories, "The Mission of Jane" and "Les Metteurs en Scene" (renamed The Promise) ...

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