The play starts at 2 pm in the Mary Gray Munroe Theatre inside the Dobbs University Center. Admission is $20 for individuals. There is a $4 discount for various groups such as citizens over 65 and children under 18. There are a variety of other discounts. Ours added up to $10 off. The Dobbs Center has a food court adjacent to the theatre, so lunch before or dessert after the performance is possible.
Parking is available in the Fishburne parking deck but be sure to wear comfortable shoes for the 1/4 mile hike to the theatre. We are making arrangements with Emory for one or more cars to park in the handicapped zone almost adjacent to the building and near to the elevator. Let us know if you would to like to take advantage of this close-in parking.
Directions to the Fishburne Parking Deck, 1672 N. Decatur Rd, 30322
Enter Emory Campus on Dowman Drive at the new traffic circle by Everybody's Pizza. Take the first right onto Fishburne Drive and continue a short distance to the parking deck. Print a copy of the Emory Arts map for directions from the parking deck to the Dobbs Center.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Persuasion Compared to the Other Jane Austen Novels
Novelist and essayist, C.S. Lewis wrote a comparison of Jane Austen's six novels in his essay, "A Note on Jane Austen" (first published in Essays in Criticism, 1954). He states that Austen's first four novels about young women who undergo 'undeception' (his term for self-discovery) were quite different from her last two, Mansfield Park and Persuasion. The last two "are the novels of the solitary heroines." He also notes, "These two novels, we might almost say, stand to the others as Shakespeare's 'dark' comedies to his comedies in general."
Anne Elliot does not have the 'undeception' experience, but she does undergo a significant external one. In the 2004 Edition of Persuasions, Dr. Elaine Bander, Professor, Dawson College, wrote an essay entitled, 'From Interior to Exterior Worlds' in which she points out, "During the first half of the novel, Anne works hard to mask her inner feelings from scrutiny; in the second half of the novel, however, she performs those feelings, acting out what is inside turning her interior self into an exterior display, in order to encourage Captain Wentworth to renew his suit."
It will be interesting to see how successfully Anne's internal struggles can be translated from the page to the stage.
