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==The original text==
 
==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.
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"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", is one of the most popular episodes from Charles Dickens's ''The Pickwick Papers'' (published 1836-1837) and has often been dramatized or read aloud as a parlor entertainment over the years.
  
 
Dickens's own prose extract, as used in his popular ''Readings'', was published as ''Doctor Marigold and Bardell and Pickwick by Charles Dickens, as condensed by himself, for his readings'' in Boston by Ticknor and Fields, 1868.
 
Dickens's own prose extract, as used in his popular ''Readings'', was published as ''Doctor Marigold and Bardell and Pickwick by Charles Dickens, as condensed by himself, for his readings'' in Boston by Ticknor and Fields, 1868.

Revision as of 06:48, 25 March 2018

Bardell vs. Pickwick is a farcical sketch in one act by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)[1] and John Hollingshead (1827-1904)[2].

Also found written as Bardell v. Pickwick and Bardell vs Pickwick.


The original text

"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", is one of the most popular episodes from Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers (published 1836-1837) and has often been dramatized or read aloud as a parlor entertainment over the years.

Dickens's own prose extract, as used in his popular Readings, was published as Doctor Marigold and Bardell and Pickwick by Charles Dickens, as condensed by himself, for his readings in Boston by Ticknor and Fields, 1868.

The scene was dramatized as a farcical sketch in one act called Bardell vs. Pickwick by Charles Dickens and arranged for the stage by John Hollingshead (1827-1904). First performed at the Gaiety Theatre, London, January 24, 1871. Published as The Acting Drama No 152 by O.A. Roorbach, New York,

Translations and adaptations

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[3]

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100301711

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hollingshead

Facsimile version of Dickens's own extract, used in his Readings, published 1868[4]

Facsimile version of the Roorbach edition of the Hollingshead dramatized text[5]

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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