Does this explain the ambiguous nature of the Stanley/Blanche relationship: a denied, transformed tale of homosexuality?
Keats transformed the tale to express the widespread Romantic theme of the attempt to find in actuality an ideal love that has been glimpsed heretofore only in imaginative longings.
In his next crack at screenwriting, Reed's elegant and piercing "Fallen Idol" (1948), Greene violated his own published writing — in this case, a short story called "The Basement Room" — even more shamelessly: he transformed the tale of a lonely boy who sees a murder committed by his best friend, the family butler, into the story of a child who mistakes an accident for a crime.
He transformed the tale from a dated allegory into an exploration of the magical attributes of humanity, largely through the songs he wrote for the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion.
They are playing for higher stakes than we are playing for when we tinker with actuality in order to transform the tale told by an idiot into an orderly, self-serving narrative.
With its slack plot and its inflated production numbers, the show transforms a tale of romantic agony into a theatrical agony.
A new production by Arthur Aviles and Marlyn Matias of "El Pato Feo" ("The Ugly Duckling"), which transforms the Hans Christian Andersen tale into a parable about gay coming out, will be performed as part of the Baad! lesbian and gay festival, Out Like That.
Together the three of them transformed this tale of poor girl-turned-actress-turned-power hungry first lady into a resounding critical triumph.
In the film Tonto tells the tale of what transformed John Reid from a man of the law into a legend of justice.
Forget any purported symbolism about the effects of nuclear radiation on humanity or the mutational power of storytelling to transform a tale into something radically different from its original source.
Ms. Nottage has endowed the frail-looking Sophie, as well as the formidable Mama, with a strength that transforms this tale of ruin into a cleareyed celebration of endurance.
