The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Brockett, Oscar Gross, Century of Innovation: A History of European and American Theatre and Drama Since the Late Nineteenth Century, Allyn and Bacon, 1991.

  This book provides a thematic overview of theatrical movements that have shaped modern theater.

• Dickens, Charles, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,1839, reprint, Oxford University Press, 1957.

  This is the original Nicholas Nickleby novel by Dickens.

• Edgar, David, ed., Playwrights on Playwriting, State of Play Series, Faber and Faber Limited, 1999.

  This anthology of essays on playwriting contains an introduction by the volume editor, David Edgar.

• Matthew, Colin, ed., The Nineteenth Century: The British Isles: 1815-1901, Oxford University Press, 2000.

  This book of essays by leading historians covers the economy, politics, society, gender, religious, and artistic world of nineteenth-century Britain.

• Painter, Susan, Edgar, The Playwright, Methuen, 1996.

  A study of Edgar’s works, this book includes a chronology of his life and production dates as well as some photos.

• Price, Martin, ed., Dickens: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice-Hall, 1967.

  This collection of essays, mostly focusing on one or another of Dickens’s novels, includes an essay by Dickens Scholar Barbara Hardy entitled “Change of Heart in Dickens’ Novels.”

• Rubin, Leon, The Nicholas Nickleby Story: The Making of the Historic Royal Shakespeare Company Production, Heinemann, 1981.

  This book is a documentary of the first production of the play, including photos.

• Swain, Elizabeth, David Edgar, Playwright and Politician, Peter Lang Publishing, 1986.

  Swain examines the way in which, as she sees it, Edgar’s political plays of the 1970s portray British history, post-World War II.

• Tucker, Herbert, ed., A Companion to Victorian Literature, Polity Press, 1999.

  The book is comprised of a collection of essays by recent Victorian scholars.

• Williams, Raymond, Culture and Society 1780-1851,1958, reprint, Columbia University Press, 1983.

  This readable scholarly work on the literary and social history of industrialized Britain poses the hypothesis that culture became a commodity during this time.