The Turn of the Screw adaptations and reworkings in a variety of media, and these reworkings and adaptations have, themselves, been analysed in the academic literature on Henry James and neo-Victorian culture. It was adapted to an opera by Benjamin Britten, which premiered in 1954, and the opera has been filmed on numerous occasions. The novella was adapted as a ballet score (1980) by Luigi Zaninelli, and separately as a ballet (1999) by Will Tucket for the Royal Ballet. Harold Pinter directed "The Innocents" (1950), a Broadway play which was an adaptation of "The Turn of the Screw", and a subsequent eponymous stage play, adapted
William Archibald (playwright) the choreographer Charles Weidman: a verse accompaniment for "On My Mother's Side". He also wrote the text for José Limón's "War Lyrics". In 1945, Archibald wrote the book and lyrics for "Carib Song", which was staged at the Adelphi Theatre with choreography by Katherine Dunham and a score by Baldwin Bergersen. Archibald then went on to write another musical, three plays and the libretto for a ballet opera: "Bay Harbour". His first play, "The Innocents", based on the Henry James novella "The Turn of the Screw", opened on Broadway in 1950. With Truman Capote he wrote the screenplay for the