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<strong>The</strong> Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novel<br />

1243 | 1244<br />

Fitzsimons, R. <strong>The</strong> Charles Dickens show: an account <strong>of</strong> his public<br />

readings 1858–1870. 1970.<br />

Collins, P. <strong>The</strong> Dickens reading copies in Dickens House.<br />

Dickensian 68 1972.<br />

Collins, P. Dickens’s public readings: texts and performances.<br />

Dickens Stud Annual 3 1974.<br />

Collins, P. Dickens’s public readings: the kit and the team.<br />

Dickensian 74 1978.<br />

Plays, poems and other minor works and papers<br />

Bibliographies<br />

Most <strong>of</strong> the shorter items have been listed in the bibliographies by Shepherd,<br />

Kitton, Hammerton and Eckel (see Bibliographies and reference<br />

works, above), and have been collected in the vols listed below. Only separate<br />

reprints issued in Dickens’s lifetime, or subsequently pbd with<br />

comment or other supplementary matter, or items identified since the most<br />

generally available collection <strong>of</strong> his papers (ed Matz 1908) are included<br />

here.<br />

Dexter, W. Dickens’s early dramatic productions (from <strong>The</strong> strange<br />

gentleman to <strong>The</strong> lamplighter). Dickensian 33–4 1937–8.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Lord Chamberlain’s copies <strong>of</strong> Dickens’s plays. Appendix G.<br />

Letters <strong>of</strong> Dickens, ed M. House and G. Storey, [Pilgrim edn] vol 1<br />

Oxford 1965.<br />

Glancy, R. Dickens’s Christmas books, Christmas stories, and other<br />

short fiction. New York 1985.<br />

Collections<br />

<strong>The</strong> plays and poems <strong>of</strong> Dickens, with a few miscellanies in prose<br />

now first collected. Ed R. H. Shepherd 2 vols 1885. An earlier edn,<br />

2 vols 1882, containing No thoroughfare, was withdrawn<br />

through copyright difficulties.<br />

Poems and verses. Ed F. G. Kitton 1903.<br />

Plays and poems. In Collected papers vol 2, 1937 (Nonesuch). <strong>The</strong><br />

fullest collection.<br />

Complete plays and selected poems. 1970.<br />

<strong>The</strong> strange gentleman and other plays. Ed J. Tillett 1972.<br />

Plays<br />

O’<strong>The</strong>llo: an operatic burlesque (unpbd). Performed privately by<br />

Dickens’s family and friends, 1833. Facs <strong>of</strong> fragments,<br />

Dickensian 13 1917, 26 1930. Included in Nonesuch, Collected<br />

papers, above.<br />

Hayward, C. Charles Dickens and Shakespeare: or the Irish Moor <strong>of</strong><br />

Venice, O’<strong>The</strong>llo, with music. Dickensian 73 1977.<br />

<strong>The</strong> village coquettes: a comic opera in two acts, the music by John<br />

Hullah. 1836, Leipzig 1845 (in L. Hilsenberg, Modern <strong>English</strong><br />

comic theatre), Amsterdam [1868?] (in Modern <strong>English</strong> comedies<br />

and farces no 1); rptd [1878] (facs), 1883 (in Dicks, Standard plays).<br />

First production 6 Dec 1836, St James’s <strong>The</strong>atre.<br />

Songs, choruses and concerted pieces in the operatic burletta <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong><br />

village coquettes. 1837.<br />

<strong>The</strong> following songs were pbd separately (Hullah’s music,<br />

Dickens’s words): <strong>The</strong> child and the old man 1836, Some folks<br />

who have grown old 1836, How beautiful at eventide 1836, No<br />

light bound <strong>of</strong> stag 1836, My fair home 1851, <strong>The</strong> cares <strong>of</strong> the day<br />

1858, Autumn leaves 1871. Reviews in Dickensian 30 1934.<br />

<strong>The</strong> strange gentleman: a comic burletta, in two acts, by ‘Boz’, first<br />

performed at the St James’s <strong>The</strong>atre on Thursday September 29<br />

1836. 1837 (with frontispiece by ‘Phiz’), 1871 (without frontispiece).<br />

Variants; in some copies extra frontispiece by F. W.<br />

Pailthorpe. J. C. Eckel 1932 (see Bibliographies and reference<br />

works, above) mentions another reprint but gives no data.<br />

<strong>The</strong> strange gentleman. [1883] (in Dicks, Standard plays), 2 pts 1904,<br />

1928 (priv ptd, illus with reproductions from original drawings<br />

by John Leech, John Orlando Parry et al). Dickens’s first publicly<br />

produced play; a version as a short story, <strong>The</strong> great Winglebury<br />

duel, appeared in Sketches by Boz 1st ser 1836.<br />

Adrian, A. A. <strong>The</strong> demise <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> strange gentleman. Dickensian 51<br />

1955. On the 1873 revival.<br />

Hill, T. W. Dickens and his ugly duckling. Dickensian 37 1941.<br />

Is she his wife? or something singular: a comic burletta in one act.<br />

[1872?]. <strong>The</strong> earliest known surviving edn. A unique copy <strong>of</strong> the<br />

real 1st edn – nd, presumably about 1837 – was destroyed by fire in<br />

1879. A reprint <strong>of</strong> the text had been made from it and was issued<br />

at Boston in 1877. Play produced at St James’s <strong>The</strong>atre London 6<br />

Mar 1837. See R. H. Shepherd, A lost work <strong>of</strong> Dickens, Pen Oct<br />

1880, and J. C. Eckel 1932 under Bibliographies and reference<br />

works, above.<br />

<strong>The</strong> lamplighter: a farce by Charles Dickens (1838) now first printed<br />

from a manuscript in the Forster Collection at the South<br />

Kensington Museum. 1879; ed W. L. Phelps, New York 1926 (with<br />

<strong>The</strong> lamplighter’s story). Discovered and ptd by R. H. Shepherd.<br />

Never produced or ptd in Dickens’s lifetime. Written as a farce for<br />

Macready (see his Diaries) but withdrawn. <strong>The</strong> substance was<br />

turned into a tale and included in <strong>The</strong> Pic Nic Papers as <strong>The</strong> lamplighter’s<br />

story.<br />

Mr Nightingale’s diary: a farce in one act, by _ [Dickens and Mark<br />

Lemon]. 1851 (priv ptd), Boston 1877 (some copies with frontispiece<br />

by F. W. Pailthorpe). Produced at Devonshire House 16<br />

May 1851, both authors in the cast. See L. W. Fisher, Lemon,<br />

Dickens and Mr Nightingale’s diary: a Victorian farce, Univ <strong>of</strong><br />

Victoria Eng Literary Stud, Monograph Ser no 41, 1988 (text <strong>of</strong><br />

Lemon’s autograph draft with version rev by Lemon and Dickens<br />

for performance).<br />

Horne, R. H. Bygone celebrities, II: Mr Nightingale’s diary. GM May<br />

1871.<br />

Collins, W. Wilkie. <strong>The</strong> lighthouse. Acted at Dickens’s Tavistock<br />

House <strong>The</strong>atre, 19 June 1856. Prologue and Song <strong>of</strong> the wreck by<br />

Dickens; text <strong>of</strong> play rev by him during rehearsal. Ms (incomplete)<br />

in Berg Collection, NYPL.<br />

<strong>The</strong> frozen deep: a drama, in three acts, by Wilkie Collins; not published.<br />

1866. ‘not published’ is part <strong>of</strong> title page. <strong>The</strong> play was<br />

produced at Dickens’s house, 6 Jan 1857; in supervising<br />

rehearsals he rewrote much <strong>of</strong> the play himself. See introd to<br />

Collins’s version as a story-reading, Readings and writings in<br />

America, 2 vols 1874.<br />

Berger, F. Letter about <strong>The</strong> frozen deep. Dickensian 10 1914.<br />

Brannan, R. L. (ed). Under the management <strong>of</strong> Mr Charles Dickens:<br />

his production <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> frozen deep. Ithaca NY 1966. Prints the<br />

1857 ms prompt-copy, shows the extent <strong>of</strong> Dickens’s contributions,<br />

and gives details <strong>of</strong> the production, reviews etc.<br />

No thoroughfare: a drama in five acts (altered from the Christmas<br />

story for performance on the stage), by Charles Dickens and<br />

Wilkie Collins [with the collaboration <strong>of</strong> C. S. Fechter]. 1867.<br />

Produced 26 Dec 1867. Possibly variants. See Christmas numbers<br />

1867, above.<br />

Study <strong>of</strong> plays<br />

Fitz-Gerald, S. J. A. Dickens and the St James’s <strong>The</strong>atre. Dickensian<br />

16 1920.<br />

Poems<br />

Dexter, W. <strong>The</strong> love romance <strong>of</strong> Dickens, told in his letters to Maria<br />

Beadnell. 1936. Includes 4 poems written in Maria Beadnell’s<br />

album 1829–31, and <strong>The</strong> bill <strong>of</strong> fare (1831).<br />

See A. de Suzannet Maria Beadnell’s album. Dickensian 31 1935.<br />

A fable (not a Gay one). Lines written in Ellen Beard’s album 1834.<br />

Dickensian 28 1932.<br />

<strong>The</strong> ivy green, a Christmas carol and Gabriel Grub’s song. In<br />

Pickwick papers 1836–7.<br />

Song <strong>of</strong> the month no 8 (Of all the months in the twelve that fly).<br />

Bentley’s Misc Aug 1837. Unsigned. See W. Dexter, <strong>The</strong> song <strong>of</strong><br />

August, Dickensian 35 1939, and W. J. Carlton, <strong>The</strong> death <strong>of</strong> Mary<br />

Hogarth, Dickensian 63 1967.

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