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Cargando... Dickens' Womenpor Miriam Margolyes, Sonia Fraser
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Ms. Margolyes doesn't just give delicious readings of some of Charles Dickens' female characters. Her commentary is amusing. I didn't know what to expect, but I definitely enjoyed what I got. Before I returned it, I slipped a note thanking my library for buying this audio drama into its case. ( ) Where I got the book: I went to see Miriam Margolyes (who is a co-author) perform the one-woman stage play of the same name at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Afterwards she flogged the book for $20 and did a signing. You may know by now that I'm a sucker for a signed book. The middle of this slim volume is taken up by the script of the stage play. Topping and tailing it are two, well, I suppose you'd call them essays, one talking about Dickens and women generally, and the other covering some material left out of the play. Copious quotes from Dickens' work take up, I would estimate, 40% of the book. As a memento of watching the very excellent Margolyes perform, this has some value to me. She's a superb character actor, and indeed it was quite a shock to hear her talking in her normal (Oxbridge-educated-actress) voice. As a book about Dickens' attitude toward women, I'm sure there are better tomes out there. The material's not bad but not much attention has been given to arrangement, and a little more editing would have helped. I understand there's an audio CD with Margolyes reading; if you're looking for entertainment, read that instead. If you're looking for a scholarly work, keep looking sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Playscript with lengthy introduction and additional material on Dickens' fictional and family women. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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