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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.. For the last twelve years of his life Dickens toured Britain and America giving two-hour readings from his work to audiences of over two thousand. "This book tries to recreate, in greater detail than ever before, the sense of how those readings were performed and how they were received, how Dickens devised his stage set and tailored his books to make them into performance scripts, how he conducted his reading tours all around the country and developed a quite extraordinary rapport with his listeners." Pp.xiv/331, 17 black & white illustrations, scuffing to lower corner of half-title page. Paperback. VG.
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Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings Paperback - 2008
by Malcolm Andrews
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In 1841 Dickens declared to his readers, 'to commune with you, in any form, is to me a labour of love'.
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- Title Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings
- Author Malcolm Andrews
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Illustrated.
- Pages 348
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
- Date 2008-02-09
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780199236206 / 0199236208
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.47 x 5.54 x 0.76 in (21.51 x 14.07 x 1.93 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.8
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. The covers have a touch of edge wear. Signed with dedication on the title page. Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist and public Reader. That third career has seldom been given the serious attention it deserved. For the last 12 years of his life he toured Britain and America giving 2-hour readings from his work to audiences of over two thousand. These readings were highly dramatic performances in which Dickens's great gift for mimicry enabled him to represent the looks and voices of his characters, to the point where audiences forgot they were watching Charles Dickens. His novels came alive on the platform: at the end of a reading, it seemed to many that a whole society had broken up rather than that a solitary recitalist had concluded. This book tries to recreate, in greater detail than hitherto, the sense of how those readings were performed and how they were received, how Dickens devised his stage set and tailored his books…
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