The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script

James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University.  He was the general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, complete in eighteen volumes.  The final volume was his variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (2019). Anne Margaret Daniel teaches literature at The New School University. She is the editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald's I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories (2017) and the Norton Library edition of The Great Gatsby (2022). She and Jackson Bryer are preparing the selected letters of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald for publication.

• List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on the Text; Introduction; The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script; Annotations.

'Owen Davis's play The Great Gatsby, which had a successful Broadway run in 1926, reimagined and even recast Fitzgerald's book in ways that gave it resonance both as an expression of the Roaring Twenties zeitgeist, and after, as an approach to the ways the novel, in a new form, still tells the American story. With Anne Margaret Daniel and James L. W. West III's perceptive and instructive introduction providing context, this engrossing script has its own story to tell and insights to Fitzgerald to reveal. And like the novel, it cuts to the heart of America.' Linda Patterson Miller, Distinguished Professor of English, Penn State Abington