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Alexander, Star of Film, Stage, and Novel
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This chapter explores how Alexander seems to have been ignored as a subject for the movies until after the Second World War, but he was soon on the stage, as in Terence Rattigan's
Adventure Story
(1949). Soon after, a full-length film,
Alexander the Great
, was shot in Spain in 1955, starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom. Alexander has also been a subject for children's films.
Maya the Bee
was a German book by Waldemar Bousels of 1912. As for novels, Louis Couperus (Dutch, 1863–1923) wrote an
Iskander. De roman van Alexander de Grate
. Meanwhile, the novels
The Alexander Cipher
by Will Adams and
Sunset Oasis
by Baha Taher deals with an Alexander buried at Siwa.
Title: Alexander, Star of Film, Stage, and Novel
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This chapter explores how Alexander seems to have been ignored as a subject for the movies until after the Second World War, but he was soon on the stage, as in Terence Rattigan's
Adventure Story
(1949).
Soon after, a full-length film,
Alexander the Great
, was shot in Spain in 1955, starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom.
Alexander has also been a subject for children's films.
Maya the Bee
was a German book by Waldemar Bousels of 1912.
As for novels, Louis Couperus (Dutch, 1863–1923) wrote an
Iskander.
De roman van Alexander de Grate
.
Meanwhile, the novels
The Alexander Cipher
by Will Adams and
Sunset Oasis
by Baha Taher deals with an Alexander buried at Siwa.
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