Name: Dot or The Cricket on the Hearth: The 1862 Theatrical Adaptation
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Author: Charles Dickens

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Dot or The Cricket on the Hearth: The 1862 Theatrical Adaptation

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Dion Boucicault

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.2 cm

Weight

0.05 kg.

ISBN13

9781522808978

Synopsis "Dot or The Cricket on the Hearth: The 1862 Theatrical Adaptation"

Considered one of the most influential playwrights in nineteenth-century theatre, Dion Boucicault was at the height of his career when he adapted Charles Dickens' Christmas novella for the stage. Known for his dramatic construction, Boucicault crafted an intriguing drama that captivated audiences. While it was not the first adaptation of the story that London saw, it was considered the most "memorable." After its original production, it toured extensively throughout England and continued to be produced at the Gaiety Theatre, Haymarket Theatre, Theatre Royal, Nottingham, Sadler's Wells, among others. Its New York production at the Winter Garden, under Boucicault's direction, launched the career of Joseph Jefferson. At the time of Boucicault's death, "Dot" was mentioned as being among the playwright's best plays. Published as part of Theatre Arts Press' Dickens Dramatized Series of Plays.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.

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