Difference between revisions of "Bardell v. Pickwick"
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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
| − | + | First performed at the Gaiety Theatre, London, January 24, 1871. | |
| + | ''[[Bardell vs. Pickwick]]'' (the trial scene from Pickwick); a farcical sketch in one act. By Charles Dickens. Arranged for the stage by John Hollingshead (1827-1904). The Acting Drama No 152, O.A. Roorbach, New York, | ||
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 06:09, 25 March 2018
Original issued in series: French's acting edition ; no. 2312.
Bardell v. Pickwick is a comic scene by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)[].
Contents
The original text
Based on "Bardell v. Pickwick: The Trial for Breach of Promise of Marriage Held at the Guildhall Sittings, on April 1, 1828, Before Mr. Justice Stareleigh and a Special Jury of the City of London", a popular episode from Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers (published 1836-1837), one often been dramatized or read aloud as a parlor entertainment over the years.
Translations and adaptations
First performed at the Gaiety Theatre, London, January 24, 1871.
Bardell vs. Pickwick (the trial scene from Pickwick); a farcical sketch in one act. By Charles Dickens. Arranged for the stage by John Hollingshead (1827-1904). The Acting Drama No 152, O.A. Roorbach, New York,
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
The Lawbook Exchange. Advert for a 2010 reprint of Bardell v. Pickwick: The Trial for Breach of Promise of Marriage Held at the Guildhall Sittings, on April 1, 1828, Before Mr. Justice Stareleigh and a Special Jury of the City of London. Edited with Notes and Commentaries by Percy Fitzgerald. London: Elliot Stock, 1902[1]
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100301711
Facsimile version of the Hollingshead text[2]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 232, 414
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