Bardell v. Pickwick

Original issued in series: French's acting edition ; no. 2312.

Bardell v. Pickwick is a comic scene by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)[].

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,

Doctor Marigold and Bardell and Pickwick by Charles Dickens, as condensed by himself, for his readings. Published in Published in Boston by Ticknor and Fields, 1868.

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 Dickens's own extract, used in his Readings, published 1867[2]

Facsimile version of the Roorbach edition of the Hollingshead text[3]

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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