Charles Dickens

Great Expectations (NHB Modern Plays) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels, bringing it thrillingly to life for the stage. When the orphan Pip meets the convict Magwitch in a graveyard and is forced to help him escape, his life takes a series of unexpected turns. Invited to the house of the mysterious Miss Havisham, he falls in love with her adopted daughter, the beautiful but cold-hearted Estella. Then the generosity of an unknown benefactor sends him to London to become a gentleman. But the truth behind his change of fortune, once revealed, is not what Pip expects... Eminently actable and stageable, this version is also ideal for schools and amateur theatre companies. This book contains introductions by Simon Callow, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley (great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens) and Clifford herself. 'What is so admirable... is that it decisively shrugs off the many screen adaptations to make something that is pure theatre' - The Times 'A striking piece of theatre... potently evocative' - Telegraph 'Breathtaking... one feels transported back to the Victorian era' - The Stage 'Arresting... the adaptation is a model of its kind' - Whatsonstage.com 'An incredibly cohesive and careful adaptation' - Exeunt Magazine 'Clifford's script is a miracle of intelligent compression that wraps itself elegantly round every essential element in the story' - Guardian

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780012162
• Artikelnr.: 45140924

Autorenporträt

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction.