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- Categories:Gender, Television Episode
Description
"The Hemingway Play" was the name of a TV movie shown on PBS in the
late 1970's. The idea of the play was to show the essence of what
the Hemingway novels were about (the "Hemingway Code"), done in the
format of a play. Ernest Hemingway was represented by four
characters in the play: (1) Hemingway as a brash young man (2)
Hemingway as a middle-aged man (3) Hemingway as disillusioned old
man and (4) Hemingway as a beautiful young woman. The female
Hemingway was portrayed by Pamela Sue Anderson (who also did the
"Nancy Drew" TV series). The reason for the female Hemingway
character was that many English literature experts believe that one
female character in a prominent Hemingway novel (I can't remember
which one) was believed to have been written to personify Hemingway
himself. There were many personal, autobiographical elements in the
Hemingway novels, and most Hemingway experts believe that the
beautiful young woman was really Hemingway. There were lines in the
TV movie which hinted very directly that the Pamela Sue Anderson
character was really the great writer, in the body of a beautiful
young woman. I don't know if this counts as transformation, since
to transformation occurred during the actual TV play. But since
Hemingway was actually male, and the character representing him was
female, perhaps it counts on that score.
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originally posted by TG Fan on 2005-09-25, no edits, entryid=1270
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