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The Mystery of Edwin Drood musical, also known during its original run simply as Drood, was first produced in 1985 by the New York Shakespeare Festival, and then transferred to Broadway, where it ran for 608 performances (and 24 previews).
- Fildes, Luke, Sir, Charles Dickens
- 1870
This article was most recently revised and updated by Kara Rogers. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, published posthumously in 1870. Only 6 of the 12 projected parts had been completed by the time of Dickens’s death.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Summary. Jack Jasper is the choirmaster of the cathedral at Cloisterham. Young as he is, he is also the guardian of his orphan nephew, Edwin Drood, who is only a few years Jasper’s junior. Edwin ...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's final novel was left unfinished before his death in 1871. Edwin Drood’s uncle, John Jasper, a choirmaster, is in love with his pupil and Drood’s fiancee Rosa Bud. She has also caught the eye of high-spirited and ill-tempered Neville Landless (who came from Ceylon with his twin sister Helena).
Jasper sets the example of nearly emptying his glass, and Neville follows it. Edwin Drood says, ‘Thank you both very much,’ and follows the double example. ‘Look at him,’ cries Jasper, stretching out his hand admiringly and tenderly, though rallyingly too. ‘See where he lounges so easily, Mr. Neville!
This chapter explores the ways in which responses to the novel have evolved, dividing them broadly into four groups: the opportunists, the detectives, the academics, and the irreverent. It explores the solutions for their implicit criticism regarding how The Mystery of Edwin Drood should be interpreted, examining the conflicting ideas which ...
Genesis of the Last Novel: Edwin Drood 199 the city is the pariah or the scapegoat" (Bruns 79). This ambiguity accords with the doubleness in The Mystery of Edwin Drood , with Jasper's life being conducted between the two cities; and this in turn accords with the same issue in the Cain and Abel story, of "an encounter with the lost brother, the ...
