How Long to Read The Dickens Pantomime

How Long Does it Take to Read The Dickens Pantomime?

It takes the average reader to read The Dickens Pantomime by Edwin M. Eigner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

All his life Charles Dickens was fascinated by the Christmas Pantomime, one of the most popular and least respectable of nineteenth-century genres and still one of the most successful forms of British drama. In The Dickens Pantomime Edwin Eigner shows how Dickens based his characters on the dramatis personae of Pantomime and how he structured his novels according to the two-part pattern of the early nineteenth-century panto, a pattern based on transformations effected by stage magic. In Dickens' hands the Pantomime characters expressed some of the most significant concerns of the times, and the transformations they underwent, mirroring the structural transformations of the Pantomime itself, provided means of rescuing Victorians from problems which seemed unsolvable given their prevailing world view. This book deals with all of Dickens' novels, the so-called light novels and the dark, and with the comic as well as the tragic characters. It concentrates, however, on David Copperfield, the middle novel in the Dickens' canon. Eigner places Wilkins Micawber at the center of the author's vision, where this supreme comic creation can illuminate the behavior of a zany like Dick Swiveller of The Old Curiosity Shop as well as the desperation of such tragic figures from the late novels as Sydney Carton of A Tale of Two Cities. Micawber, Eigner argues, provides the creative absurdity necessary to change the lives of both the characters and the readers of the novels.

How long is The Dickens Pantomime?

The Dickens Pantomime by Edwin M. Eigner is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

This makes it 0% the length of the average book. It also has 0% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Dickens Pantomime Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read The Dickens Pantomime aloud.

What Reading Level is The Dickens Pantomime?

The Dickens Pantomime is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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