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A Tale of Two Cities
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| Poster advertising John Martin-Harvey in The
Only Way, adapted from A Tale of Two Cities. Martin-Harvey
appeared in numerous productions of this play from the late
19th century to early 20th. |
Two clergymen, the Reverends Wills and Langbridge,
seized Dickens’s twelfth novel, A Tale of Two Cities,
and turned it into a play called The Only Way. John Martin-Harvey
made a career out of playing Sydney Carton and uttering those immortal
lines “It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever
done….”
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