Selection Guide to Dickens's Amateur Theatricals- Part 2

The part of Mr Snobbington, a bank clerk who asks a stranger if he is behaving like a gentleman is from Mrs Charles Gore 's A Good Night's Rest, based on Étienne Arnal's Passé Minuit and first performed in London at the New Strand Theatre in July i839, with W. Bennett as Mr Snobbingto...

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Published in:Dickensian 2012-04, Vol.108 (486), p.33
Main Author: Hanna, Robert C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actors
British & Irish literature
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
English literature
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Suicides & suicide attempts
Theater
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Summary:The part of Mr Snobbington, a bank clerk who asks a stranger if he is behaving like a gentleman is from Mrs Charles Gore 's A Good Night's Rest, based on Étienne Arnal's Passé Minuit and first performed in London at the New Strand Theatre in July i839, with W. Bennett as Mr Snobbington.9 However, Dickens must have had in mind Charles Mathews's revision of both Passé Minuit and A Good Night's Rest, retitled Two in the Morning and first performed at the Theatre Royal in October 1840, for him to write, ? have selected Keeley's part in Two O'Clock in The Morning'. .'° Keeley appeared in Mathews's version only, as Mr Newpenny, indicating that Dickens either saw Keeley's performance, read an account of it, or later examined a copy o/Two in the Morning, which names Keeley as having performed the pan of Newpenny." [...]Lucy berates Splash and accepts the dancing master's advances.
ISSN:0012-2440