"Shadowlands"

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This paper examines the play, "Shadowlands", the story of C. S. Lewis's tragic late-life marriage to the American poetess, Joy Davidson Gresham. It looks at how there have been, to date, three different versions: a BBC TV play; a stage play; and a movie. It attempts to analyze whether these versions can be considered true representations of his life.

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"A question asked by many today, including myself, did C.S. Lewis really lose his faith after the death of his wife? Some people got this idea from "Shadowlands", but it is not true, as Lewis's autobiographical book "a Grief Observed" makes lain. He did go through a period of questioning God's goodness, but this seems to have lasted for only a few hurs. ("A Grief Observed" contains a few pages in which Lewis speculates that God might be wicked, followed by the line , I wrote that last night. It was a yell rather that a thought.") One of Lewis's best Christian books-"Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer"- was written in the last years of his life, after Joy had died."

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