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==Stage and book adaptations== The stage adaptation ''Lady Susan: Jane Austen's Distinguished Flirt'' by Bonnie Milne Gardner was performed at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1998<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-theatre-dance/past-productions/ |title=Past Productions {{!}} Ohio Wesleyan University |website=owu.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151221075408/https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-theatre-dance/past-productions/ |archive-date=2015-12-21}}</ref> and is published by Scripts for Stage.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scriptsforstage.co.uk/wp/product/susan/|title = Lady Susan: Jane Austen's Distinguished Flirt}}</ref> A two-woman version of ''Lady Susan'', adapted by Inis Theatre, played at the Dublin fringe festival in 2001β2.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tickmybox.com/aboutinis.htm |title=Inis Theatre website |access-date=31 May 2009}}</ref> An adaptation by Christine U'Ren was performed by Bella Union Theatre Company at the Berkeley City Club in Berkeley, California, in July 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bellaunion.org |title=Bella Union website |access-date=31 May 2009}}</ref> ''Lady Susan (a novel)'', a 1980 complete re-write by [[Phyllis Ann Karr]]. ''Lady Vernon and Her Daughter'', a novel-length reconstruction of ''Lady Susan'', was published by Crown Publishing in 2009. Written by mother-and-daughter co-authors Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway, the adaptation reinterprets the work to conform closely to Austen's more mature prose style. A further adaptation of the text, [[Love & Friendship#Novelization|in the form of a novelization]] by director [[Whit Stillman]], was announced for publication to coincide with the general release of the film (under the same title) on 13 May 2016, starring Kate Beckinsale.<ref name="Alter">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/movies/whit-stillman-interview-jane-austen-love-and-friendship-lady-susan.html?_r=0|last=Alter|first=Alexandra|title=Whit Stillman Discusses Austen's Sense and His Sensibility|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2 May 2016|access-date=4 May 2016}}</ref> Alexandra Alter of ''[[The New York Times]]'' states in her 2016 interview article with Stillman, describing the novelization: "In the novel, Mr. Stillman takes the characters and plot from Austen's fictionalized letters and narrates the tale from the perspective of Lady Susan's nephew, who hopes to counter criticism of his maligned aunt. The 41 letters from Austen's ''Lady Susan'' are included in an appendix."<ref name="Alter"/> Stillman told Alter that he felt ''Lady Susan'' was not quite finished and thought the form of the book was "so flawed".<ref name="Alter"/> After realising that there was another story to be told, he convinced the publisher [[Little, Brown and Company]] to let him write the novel.<ref name="Alter"/> In November 2020, ''Jane Austen's Lady Susan'' (a play) by [[Rob Urbinati]] was published by [[Samuel French]].<ref name="Urbinati2020">{{cite book|author=Rob Urbinati|title=Jane Austen's Lady Susan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zzEyzgEACAAJ|date=2 November 2020|publisher=Concord Theatricals|isbn=978-0-573-70879-4}}</ref> and its world premier performance was produced October 2021 by the Good Theater at the [[St. Lawrence Arts Center]] in [[Portland, Maine]].
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