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David Copperfield Charles Dickens

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens


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Summary

One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording.

David Copperfield Summary

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording.

All Dickens's marvellous creations are here: Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mrs Peggotty, Murdstone, Steerforth and Betsey Trotwood. Weaving through the colourful maze of the storyline is David's hopeless infatuation with Emily - and eventual salvation in the arms of the long-suffering Agnes.

Alastair Cording's stage adaptation of Dickens's David Copperfield was first performed by Eastern Angles in 1995. It skilfully concentrates on the essentials of the story while maintaining the colour, humour and drama of the book. Most notable is its fluidity, with each scene flowing into the next without the need for cumbersome scene changes - or much scenery at all. Performable by a cast of eight, if necessary, but equally offering good roles to thirty or more.

David Copperfield Reviews

'One of the cleverest adaptations you are likely to see'

* Ipswich Evening Star *

'All the drama, pathos and humour of David Copperfield's eventful young life are vividly realised in this enthralling adaptation'

* The Stage *

About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. His major works include: The Pickwick Papers (1836), Oliver Twist (1837-9), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-9), A Christmas Carol (1843), Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4), David Copperfield (1849-50), Bleak House (1852-3), Hard Times (1854), Little Dorrit (1855-7), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1), Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) and the unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), as well as other novels, books and short stories. None of his major works has ever gone out of print. Alastair Cording is an actor and writer, and has lectured at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. His extensive career as an actor and director led to writing as a result of the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning epic, The Golden City. He has written for a number of theatre companies: a series of children's plays for Masque; Mrs O's Saturday Nights (Covent Garden Festival); Fatale (Basingstoke Haymarket); and The Walsingham Organ, Margaret Catchpole and Margaret Down Under (Eastern Angles). Adapted works include Wild Harbour and Gay Hunter for BBC TV; David Copperfield for Eastern Angles; and for TAG, Lanark and the Scots Quair trilogy, including Sunset Song.

Additional information

GOR004970571
9781848420229
1848420226
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Nick Hern Books
2009-06-26
96
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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