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Fitzsimons, R. The Charles Dickens show: an account of his public
readings 1858–1870. 1970.
Collins, P. The Dickens reading copies in Dickens House.
Dickensian 68 1972.
Collins, P. Dickens’s public readings: texts and performances.
Dickens Stud Annual 3 1974.
Collins, P. Dickens’s public readings: the kit and the team.
Dickensian 74 1978.
Plays, poems and other minor works and papers
Bibliographies
Most of the shorter items have been listed in the bibliographies by Shepherd,
Kitton, Hammerton and Eckel (see Bibliographies and reference
works, above), and have been collected in the vols listed below. Only separate
reprints issued in Dickens’s lifetime, or subsequently pbd with
comment or other supplementary matter, or items identified since the most
generally available collection of his papers (ed Matz 1908) are included
here.
Dexter, W. Dickens’s early dramatic productions (from The strange
gentleman to The lamplighter). Dickensian 33–4 1937–8.
The Lord Chamberlain’s copies of Dickens’s plays. Appendix G.
Letters of Dickens, ed M. House and G. Storey, [Pilgrim edn] vol 1
Oxford 1965.
Glancy, R. Dickens’s Christmas books, Christmas stories, and other
short fiction. New York 1985.
Collections
The plays and poems of Dickens, with a few miscellanies in prose
now first collected. Ed R. H. Shepherd 2 vols 1885. An earlier edn,
2 vols 1882, containing No thoroughfare, was withdrawn
through copyright difficulties.
Poems and verses. Ed F. G. Kitton 1903.
Plays and poems. In Collected papers vol 2, 1937 (Nonesuch). The
fullest collection.
Complete plays and selected poems. 1970.
The strange gentleman and other plays. Ed J. Tillett 1972.
Plays
O’Thello: an operatic burlesque (unpbd). Performed privately by
Dickens’s family and friends, 1833. Facs of fragments,
Dickensian 13 1917, 26 1930. Included in Nonesuch, Collected
papers, above.
Hayward, C. Charles Dickens and Shakespeare: or the Irish Moor of
Venice, O’Thello, with music. Dickensian 73 1977.
The village coquettes: a comic opera in two acts, the music by John
Hullah. 1836, Leipzig 1845 (in L. Hilsenberg, Modern English
comic theatre), Amsterdam [1868?] (in Modern English comedies
and farces no 1); rptd [1878] (facs), 1883 (in Dicks, Standard plays).
First production 6 Dec 1836, St James’s Theatre.
Songs, choruses and concerted pieces in the operatic burletta of The
village coquettes. 1837.
The following songs were pbd separately (Hullah’s music,
Dickens’s words): The child and the old man 1836, Some folks
who have grown old 1836, How beautiful at eventide 1836, No
light bound of stag 1836, My fair home 1851, The cares of the day
1858, Autumn leaves 1871. Reviews in Dickensian 30 1934.
The strange gentleman: a comic burletta, in two acts, by ‘Boz’, first
performed at the St James’s Theatre on Thursday September 29
1836. 1837 (with frontispiece by ‘Phiz’), 1871 (without frontispiece).
Variants; in some copies extra frontispiece by F. W.
Pailthorpe. J. C. Eckel 1932 (see Bibliographies and reference
works, above) mentions another reprint but gives no data.
The strange gentleman. [1883] (in Dicks, Standard plays), 2 pts 1904,
1928 (priv ptd, illus with reproductions from original drawings
by John Leech, John Orlando Parry et al). Dickens’s first publicly
produced play; a version as a short story, The great Winglebury
duel, appeared in Sketches by Boz 1st ser 1836.
Adrian, A. A. The demise of The strange gentleman. Dickensian 51
1955. On the 1873 revival.
Hill, T. W. Dickens and his ugly duckling. Dickensian 37 1941.
Is she his wife? or something singular: a comic burletta in one act.
[1872?]. The earliest known surviving edn. A unique copy of the
real 1st edn – nd, presumably about 1837 – was destroyed by fire in
1879. A reprint of the text had been made from it and was issued
at Boston in 1877. Play produced at St James’s Theatre London 6
Mar 1837. See R. H. Shepherd, A lost work of Dickens, Pen Oct
1880, and J. C. Eckel 1932 under Bibliographies and reference
works, above.
The lamplighter: a farce by Charles Dickens (1838) now first printed
from a manuscript in the Forster Collection at the South
Kensington Museum. 1879; ed W. L. Phelps, New York 1926 (with
The lamplighter’s story). Discovered and ptd by R. H. Shepherd.
Never produced or ptd in Dickens’s lifetime. Written as a farce for
Macready (see his Diaries) but withdrawn. The substance was
turned into a tale and included in The Pic Nic Papers as The lamplighter’s
story.
Mr Nightingale’s diary: a farce in one act, by _ [Dickens and Mark
Lemon]. 1851 (priv ptd), Boston 1877 (some copies with frontispiece
by F. W. Pailthorpe). Produced at Devonshire House 16
May 1851, both authors in the cast. See L. W. Fisher, Lemon,
Dickens and Mr Nightingale’s diary: a Victorian farce, Univ of
Victoria Eng Literary Stud, Monograph Ser no 41, 1988 (text of
Lemon’s autograph draft with version rev by Lemon and Dickens
for performance).
Horne, R. H. Bygone celebrities, II: Mr Nightingale’s diary. GM May
1871.
Collins, W. Wilkie. The lighthouse. Acted at Dickens’s Tavistock
House Theatre, 19 June 1856. Prologue and Song of the wreck by
Dickens; text of play rev by him during rehearsal. Ms (incomplete)
in Berg Collection, NYPL.
The frozen deep: a drama, in three acts, by Wilkie Collins; not published.
1866. ‘not published’ is part of title page. The play was
produced at Dickens’s house, 6 Jan 1857; in supervising
rehearsals he rewrote much of the play himself. See introd to
Collins’s version as a story-reading, Readings and writings in
America, 2 vols 1874.
Berger, F. Letter about The frozen deep. Dickensian 10 1914.
Brannan, R. L. (ed). Under the management of Mr Charles Dickens:
his production of The frozen deep. Ithaca NY 1966. Prints the
1857 ms prompt-copy, shows the extent of Dickens’s contributions,
and gives details of the production, reviews etc.
No thoroughfare: a drama in five acts (altered from the Christmas
story for performance on the stage), by Charles Dickens and
Wilkie Collins [with the collaboration of C. S. Fechter]. 1867.
Produced 26 Dec 1867. Possibly variants. See Christmas numbers
1867, above.
Study of plays
Fitz-Gerald, S. J. A. Dickens and the St James’s Theatre. Dickensian
16 1920.
Poems
Dexter, W. The love romance of Dickens, told in his letters to Maria
Beadnell. 1936. Includes 4 poems written in Maria Beadnell’s
album 1829–31, and The bill of fare (1831).
See A. de Suzannet Maria Beadnell’s album. Dickensian 31 1935.
A fable (not a Gay one). Lines written in Ellen Beard’s album 1834.
Dickensian 28 1932.
The ivy green, a Christmas carol and Gabriel Grub’s song. In
Pickwick papers 1836–7.
Song of the month no 8 (Of all the months in the twelve that fly).
Bentley’s Misc Aug 1837. Unsigned. See W. Dexter, The song of
August, Dickensian 35 1939, and W. J. Carlton, The death of Mary
Hogarth, Dickensian 63 1967.