Rebecca (musical) Rebecca (musical) Rebecca is a German-language musical based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It was written by Michael Kunze (book and lyrics) and Sylvester Levay (music), the authors of the musicals "Elisabeth", "Mozart!" and "Marie Antoinette". The plot, which adheres closely to the original novel, revolves around wealthy Maxim DeWinter, his naïve new wife, and Mrs. Danvers, the manipulative housekeeper of DeWinter's Cornish estate Manderley. Mrs. Danvers resents the new wife's intrusion and persuades the new wife that she is an unworthy replacement for the first Mrs. DeWinter, the glamorous and mysterious Rebecca, who
Rebecca (novel) sea" is also in metrical form; almost but not quite an anapestic tetrameter. Shortly after "Rebecca" was published in Brazil, critic Álvaro Lins pointed out many resemblances between du Maurier's book and the work of Brazilian writer Carolina Nabuco. Nabuco's "A Sucessora" ("The Successor") has a main plot similar to "Rebecca", for example a young woman marrying a widower and the strange presence of the first wife – plot features also shared with the far older "Jane Eyre". Nina Auerbach alleged in her book, "Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress", that du Maurier read the Brazilian book when the first drafts