Is She His Wife: "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."

By Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is regarded by many readers and literary critics to be THE major English novelist of the Victorian Age. He is remembered today as the author of a series of weighty novels which have been translated into many languages and promoted to the rank of World Classics. The latter include, but are not limited to, The Adventures of Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Hard Times, Great Expectations and The Old Curiosity Shop. His talents extended to many other forms including short stories, poetry, letters and his serial magazines. Of course being such a talent he also wrote plays. We are very pleased to present his third of four plays first performed at the St. James’s Theatre, March 6th, 1837; Is She His Wife

• Language: English
• Publisher: Copyright Group
• Release date: Nov 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781783945597

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of England's greatest writers. Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, Dickens wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the poor, and the growing tensions between the classes. He achieved critical and popular international success in his lifetime and was honored with burial in Westminster Abbey.

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IS SHE HIS WIFE? OR, SOMETHING SINGULAR! 

A COMIC BURLETTA IN ONE ACT by Charles Dickens – 1837

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is regarded by many readers and literary critics to be THE major English novelist of the Victorian Age. He is remembered today as the author of a series of weighty novels which have been translated into many languages and promoted to the rank of World Classics. The latter include, but are not limited to, The Adventures of Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Hard Times, Great Expectations and The Old Curiosity Shop.

His talents extended to many other forms including short stories, poetry, letters and his serial magazines.  Of course being such a talent he also wrote plays.  We are very pleased to present his third of four plays first performed at St. James’s Theatre, March 6th, 1837

Index Of Contents

Dramatis Personae

Scene I

Scene II

Charles Dickens – A Short Biography

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

ALFRED LOVETOWN, ESQ. (Played by MR. FORESTER).

MR. PETER LIMBURY (Played by MR. GARDNER).

FELIX TAPKINS, ESQ. (formerly of the India House, Leadenhall Street, and Prospect Place, Poplar; but now of the Rustic Lodge, near Reading) (Played by MR. HARLEY).

JOHN (servant to Lovetown) (Played by Unknown Actor)

MRS. LOVETOWN (Played by MISS ALLISON).

MRS. PETER LIMBURY (Played by MADAME SALA).

SCENE I.—A Room opening into a Garden. A Table laid for Breakfast; Chairs, etc. MR. and MRS. LOVETOWN, C., discovered at Breakfast, R. H. The former in a dressing-gown and slippers, reading a newspaper. A Screen on one side.

LOVETOWN (L. H. of table, yawning). Another cup of tea, my dear,—O Lord!

MRS. LOVETOWN (R. H. of table). I wish, Alfred, you would endeavour to assume a more cheerful appearance in your wife’s society. If you are perpetually yawning and complaining of ennui a few months after marriage, what am I to suppose you’ll become in a few years? It really is very odd of you.

LOVETOWN. Not at all odd, my dear, not the least in the world; it would be a great deal more odd if I were not. The fact is, my love, I’m tired of the country; green fields, and blooming hedges, and feathered songsters, are fine things to talk about and read about and write about;