This book offers an examination of performed adaptations of Stevenson's masterpiece, "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Rose investigates how a single text, adapted many times in the past century, can serve to elucidate certain shifts in cultural attitudes.

This book offers an examination of performed adaptations of Stevenson's masterpiece, "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Rose investigates how a single text, adapted many times in the past century, can serve to elucidate certain shifts in cultural attitudes. Providing an analysis of the relation between culture and performance, the author argues that Stevenson's adapters have infused the original story with concerns about issues of race, class, gender and economics.

Tracer Text, Culture-Text, and the Uses of Adaptation
The First Transformation - From Allegory to Domestic Melodrama, 1887-1920
The 1932-1948 Period - a Transformation from Domestic to Psychological Melodrama
The Melodrama of Violence, 1955-1990
Conclusions on the Active Process of Serial Adaptation.