David Copperfield (stage version) (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Charles Dickens; Alastair Cording

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848420226 ISBN 13: 9781848420229

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2009

Synopsis

This work is one of Dickens' best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly yet faithfully dramatised for a cast of ten. Here are all Dickens' marvellous creations, Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mrs Peggotty, Murdstone, Steerforth, Betsey Trotwood and all. Weaving through the colourful maze of the storyline is David's hopeless infatuation with Emily - and eventual salvation in the arms of the long-suffering Agnes. Alastair Cording's stage adaptation skilfully concentrates on the essentials of the story while maintaining the colour, humour and drama of the book. Most notable is its fluidity, with each scene flowing into the next without the need for cumbersome scene changes - or indeed very much scenery.

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Review:

The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists (Leo Tolstoy )

David Copperfield is Dickens's Hamlet... I can't remember being so moved by one of his novels... What puts David Copperfield right up there with Bleak House and Great Expectations, however, is its sweet nature, and its surprising modernity... Completing David Copperfield has left me feeling bereft (Nick Hornby )

I couldn't put it down (Barbara Taylor Bradford )

There were never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens's exultant imagination...you can never quite forget them (W. Somerset Maugham )

Dickens is huge - like the sky. Pick any page of Dickens and it's immediately recognizable as him, yet he might be doing social satire, or farce, or horror, or a psychological study of a murderer - or any combination of these (Susannah Clarke )

Book Description:

'The most perfect of all the Dickens novels' Virginia Woolf

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1848420226
• ISBN 13: 9781848420229
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128