Tag: Biography


Dickens’s Desk-World of “little familiar objects”  


This post was contributed by Pratibha Rai, an interdisciplinary graduate from the University of Oxford. Her research area is in the visual world of literature and the ways in which authors apply material objects, illustration, and their own aesthetic sensibilities to shape meaning in narratives....

“Revising” Dickens: The Author as Scrooge in Oak Park Festival’s A Dickens Carol


Contributed by Lydia Craig, Loyola University Chicago             A recent adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, entitled A Dickens Carol and directed by Kevin Theis, just experienced its second run at Oak Park Festival Theatre in Chicago, IL in December 2018. Playwright...