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Charles Dickens,
Tonight! "Professor Elliot
Engel is quite possibly the DVD - 95 minutes |
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Charles Dickens, TONIGHT! DVD $24.95 |
"Dr. Elliot Engel and actor Jeffery West have combined their talents to produce a fine evening of fact combined with fantasy as regards Engel's favorite subject, Charles Dickens. Engel is, himself, widely known as one of the most knowledgeable scholars on the subject, and this endeavor is the next in a very long line of works he has researched, written, and published on a wide span of English and American literary greats. The show is based on the more than 400 public readings Dickens gave of his own works across the two countries of England and America during the last half of the 19th century. Engel has selected some of the very best of the readings that Dickens himself used while on his tour, including of course A Christmas Carol, along with selections from Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, and A Tale of Two Cities. Jeffery West, as Dickens, performs these readings, and they are, as readings, spectacular. There are facts revealed and discoveries made during the course of the play that we would not have been apprised of otherwise. They are obviously ascertained by scholars who have examined the author's life and works, and the learning of these tidbits is just as entertaining as is the reading itself. The play is exceedingly entertaining, and quite satisfying for any Dickens aficionado." Alan R. Hall, Themestream |