The House of Mirth | Adaptations
The House of Mirth was adapted for the stage by Edith Wharton and Clyde Fitch in 1906, a year after its publication. It was not successful. Wharton attributed the failure to a poor performance and the public's lack of interest in "unhappy" endings. R. W, B. Lewis attended a revival of the play seventy years later and found it lacking in "dramatic tension." He did find cinematic qualities in a 1981 television film made for PBS with Geraldine Chaplin as Lily Bart. The depiction of the different locales proved a felicitous subject for film even though the plot was difficult to...
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