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The Man on the Tor: Adapting The Hound of the Baskervilles

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The most well-known and most widely adapted Sherlock Holmes story, The Hound of the Baskervilles, is the case study in this chapter. The story has achieved popularity on screen and stage despite its formal and technical challenges. The chapter argues that The Hound of the Baskervilles encapsulates some key features of the Sherlock Holmes myth and audiences’ affective relationship to it. The detective’s disappearance and reappearance thus serves as a form of reassurance and a means of containing anxieties about the modern world. The chapter examines a range of adaptations of the novel, from open air theatre to comic reinterpretations.

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    Benjamin Poore

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Poore, B. (2017). The Man on the Tor: Adapting The Hound of the Baskervilles . In: Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage. Adaptation in Theatre and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46963-2_6

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