The many lives of Orlando

Virginia Woolf’s Orlando depicts the title character’s transitions through multiple centuries and genders. Nearly a century after it was first published, it continues to have a vibrant and varied life. Joanna Scutts says it “laid the groundwork for today’s cultural landscape“, and recent adaptations include a play by Neil Bartlett and Paul B Precadio’s film Orlando: My Political Biography. In the US, Woolf’s novel makes the transition to the public domain in 45 days.

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About John Mark Ockerbloom

I'm a digital library strategist at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.
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