He's excellent at sports and exercises with weights to develop a handsome physique which gives him confidence to make his way in the world.

He doesn't have any shame about his homosexuality or make any excuses for it. He recognizes early he's attracted to men, having his first sexual experience with a male bodybuilder. Did they live happily ever after? Di Canzio tells this story from the stance of Alec Scudder, providing us with his past history as well as their future together once Maurice ends.ĭi Canzio narrates Alec's beginnings with his birth in Dorset in 1893. Playwright William di Canzio has decided to ask what happened to this iconic couple after they resolved to remain together.

The book was made into a hit film by Merchant Ivory in 1987.įorster was adamant that his book have an idyllic ending since during his lifetime, gay characters were often murdered, committed suicide, or led lives of quiet and sad desperation. The novel was written in 1913/1914 but due to legal issues (homosexuality in England wasn't decriminalized until 1967) and believing the public attitudes wouldn't be favorable, it wasn't published until 1971 after Forster died. Forster's landmark novel Maurice inspired by the classic love story of upper-class stockbroker Maurice Hall and working-class gameskeeper Alec Scudder. Now we have William di Canzio's gay adaptation of E.M. Darcy from Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice into contemporary Londoners and March by Geraldine Brooks, which reimagined Louisa May Alcott's Little Women from the viewpoint of the missing Civil War soldier father Mr. which modernized Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Dalloway in three different eras Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding. Some successful examples of this reappropriation have been: The Hours by Michael Cunningham, which re-envisioned Virginia Woolf's Mrs. In the last two decades, a popular literary trend has been modern retellings of classic novels, whether it be updating them or narrating them from a different character or perspective.

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