The Turn of the Screw (opera) used in the lesson scene have been examined in more detail for their paedophilic innuendos. The line "The ceremony of innocence is drowned" sung by Quint and Miss Jessel is taken from the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. Notes Cited sources Other sources The Turn of the Screw (opera) The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, "wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas". The libretto
The Turn of the Screw "Através da Sombra" ("Through the Shadow", 2016). "The Others" (2001) is not an adaptation but has some themes in common with James's novella. In 2018, director Floria Sigismondi filmed an adaptation of the novella, called "The Turning", on the Kilruddery Estate in Ireland. Television films have included a 1959 American adaptation as part of "Ford Startime" directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Ingrid Bergman; the West German "Die sündigen Engel" ("The Sinful Angel", 1962), a 1974 adaptation directed by Dan Curtis, adapted by William F. Nolan; a French adaptation entitled "Le Tour d'écrou" ("The Turn of the Screw", 1974); a