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How Dickens Changed My Life
Intelligence Squared
The Death of Styrthorth
Dickens knew what worked on stage, didn't he, Simon? He was many actors, said it was jolly good he wasn't being an actor professionally because they'd be out of the job. The novels are highly theatrical but not dramatic in the sense of the construction of a play. When he wrote plays, he wrote plays exactly like the plays in the theatre of his own time which was sentimental and sort of a coyly comic. Everything you long for in Dickens on the stage just doesn't materialise.
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