Book Review: After Foucault: Performing Dickens for the Twenty-First Century, after Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance, Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian …

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The relationship between Dickens and the nineteenth-century theatre has been fruitfully explored in many volumes. Dickens himselfdocumented his own childhood fascination with theatre (as in his introduction to the L?! e ofGrimaldi), referred to the theatre directly in many ofhis novels, wrote about theatre for Household Words and All the Year Round. and assiduously attended theatrical performances (as witnessed by many of his letters). To some extent he even shaped our understanding of the Victorian theatre, just as he helped to create the" Victorian Christmas." Nostalgia, sentiment, loyal ty to Macready, and his polemical agenda for popular amusements are among the many factors that coloured what he wrote on theatre, contributing to a mythopoeic view of the theatrical past which has not yet been completely overturned. One might be forgiven for thinking there was little more to say about Dickens and the …

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