Comments on: Stories about our time, over time

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:29:55 +0000

It’s quite common for playwrights to keep rewriting, though often that stops once the play is published by one of the major houses. Still, Peter Shaffer has been rewriting Amadeus for years, even after it won a Tony.

And of course, on the novelist side, Dave Eggers reissued his modified “You Shall Know our Velocity” as “Sacrament.”

By: Pete W

Pete W — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:02:33 +0000

Jeffrey Archer is releasing a completely reworked version of Kane and Abel. Other than that, I can’t think of any…

By: flory

flory — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:20:47 +0000

if i’m not mistaken, Thomas Hardy. he revised almost all his novels for consistency in time and place (but was kind of lax about the former), and to make sure they were geographically correct. Wessex = Dorset (or something) and so forth.

By: james mcnally

james mcnally — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:53:10 +0000

one springs to mind immediately — Charles Darwin. His “Origin of Species” went through several revisions, and he added religious content which wasn’t in the first edition. This occurred as he was becoming religious himself — he either adapted his theories to fit, or to suit others.