Synopsis:
With a running time of 3 hours and over 40 actors, Fox Cooper’s 1860 adaptation was part extravaganza and part melodrama that catered to the working class patrons of the Victoria Theatre where it was first produced. Competing against Tom Tyler’s sanctioned adaptation of the novel, Cooper’s play was disregarded by Dickensians at the time. However, today it is considered one of the better Victorian adaptations. Dramatist, actor, director and theatre manager Charles Frederick Fox Cooper was a controversial and colorful character of the Victorian stage who more than once was assaulted by his actors and arrested for causing a riot. Throughout his long career he managed the Dover Theatre, City of London Theatre, and Strand Theatre, among others. As a playwright his plays were either well received and successful or notorious flops. He could write in a variety of theatre styles from historical dramas to light operettas. He would later go on to adapt “Hard Times” and “Little Dorrit” two Dickens’ novels ignored by contemporary playwrights.
From the Publisher:
The classic, definitive, world-famous Nonesuch Press edition of 1937, finally available again and bound in leather and linen. The text in these stunning volumes is taken from the 1867 Chapman and Hall edition, which became known as the Charles Dickens edition and was the last edition to be corrected by the author himself. The Nonesuch edition contains full-color illustrations selected by Dickens himself, by artists including Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), George Cruikshank, John Leech, Robert Seymour, and George Cattermole.
The Nonesuch Dickens reproduces the original elegance of these beautiful editions. Books are printed on natural cream-shade high quality stock, quarter bound in bonded leather with cloth sides, include a ribbon marker, and feature special printed endpapers. Each volume is wrapped in a protective, clear acetate jacket.
The books are available as individual volumes, or as sets. The six-volume set contains Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Christmas Books, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations together with Hard Times. The three-volume set contains A Tale of Two Cities, Little Dorrit, and The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.
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