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A Dickens Dramatic Reader; Scenes From Pickwick, Scenes From Nicholas Nickleby, the Cricket on the Hearth, a Christmas Carol
A Dickens Dramatic Reader Scenes From Pickwick Scenes From Nicholas Nickleby the Cricket on the Hearth a Christmas Carol Author:Charles Dickens General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1913 Original Publisher: Ginn and company Subjects: Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Fiction / Classics Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottis... more »h, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: N . . PREFACE This book is appropriate for use in all classes in which the works of Dickens are studied. Explanations and stage directions are given, to make the scenes intelligible without the context and for convenience in acting. When the selections are read at sight, explanations can be assigned to a single pupil, or, if the story is familiar, they . can be omitted. The aim has been to follow the original closely, and with few exceptions the characters speak the language Dickens gave them. The dramatic arrangement should not be a substitute for the full narrative but rather an introduction to it, in which the imagination is aided by the cooperation of the class, through the voice and action. It is hoped that such an introduction will so vividly present the world of light-hearted gayety, of sympathy for distress, of love for humanity which Dickens created, that more will linger there gladly with only the master for guide. FANNY COMSTOCK :56415 MR. PICKWICK AT DINGLEY DELL CHARACTERS Mr. Pickwick Sam Weller Mr. Tupman Mr. Perker Mr. Winkle Miss Rachel Wardle Mr. Snodgrass Mrs. Wardle Mr. Wardle Isabella Wardle Alfred Jingle Emily Wardle Surgeon, Fat Boy, Servants, Landlady, Chambermaid, Maids Mr. Pickwick is an elderly English gentleman living in London, simple and unsuspecting in mind, and kindly of heart. Benevolen...« less