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Nicholas Nickleby
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| Window card announcing the Royal
Shakespeare Company's production of Nicholas Nickleby.
Plymouth Theatre, New York, October 1981. |
Dickens’s third novel, Nicholas Nickleby,
is remembered for its artful blend of the tragic and the comic. Piratical
playwrights often focused specifically on one or the other –
either the hilarity of the bumbling Crummles and his travelling actors
or the wretchedness of the ill-fated Smike. The popularity of Nicholas
Nickleby gained unexpected momentum in the 1980s with the success
of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s eight-and-a-half-hour stage
production.
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