The Turn of the Screw
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"The Turn of the Screw" is an 1898 longish short story by Henry James that has proven to be one of his most popoular, ambiguous, well-studied, and frequently adapted works.
Adaptations
- opera by Benjamin Britten (1954);
- a ballet by William Tuckett (1999);
- film by Jack Clayton ("The Innocents" (1961), co-written by Truman Capote);
- TV movie 1959 by John Frankenheimer, starring Ingrid Bergman;
- 1974 TV movie Dan Curtis, starring Lynn Redgrave;
- 1974 French adaptation;
- 1982 German operatic adaptation;
- 1989 adaptation starring Amy Irving;
- numerous other adaptations
Intertextual references
- Numerous influences by this work on others