Table of Contents

Tom Taylor, A Tale of Two Cities, Lyceum Theatre, January 1860
Dion Boucicault, Dot, Adelphi Theatre, April 1862 (New York, 1859)
Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, No Thoroughfare, Adelphi Theatre, December 1867
John Hollingshead, Bardell v. Pickwick, Gaiety Theatre, January 1871
W. S. Gilbert, Great Expectations, Court Theatre, May 1871
J. P. Burnett, Jo, or Bleak House, Globe Theatre, February 1876 (Liverpool, 1875)
James Albery, Jingle, Lyceum Theatre, April 1887

About the Author

Jim Davis is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick.

Reviews

The volume includes a thorough introduction describing Victorian dramatic practices and reprints seven plays, each with its own introduction. Extensive annotations are provided in the convenient form of footnotes, along with contemporary illustrations.
*Andrea Henderson, Studies in English Literature*

[A] superb edition of Dickensian adaptations.
*Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Times Literary Supplement*