Charles Dickens’s novels were so popular in the 19th century they were pirated and staged before he had even finished writing them. Victorian readers and theatregoers loved the melodrama. In the 20th  ...									
								
								
									
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										EMMA (Universal Pictures). “I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,” said Jane Austen. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, rich, snobbish, spoiled, conceited, patronising and ...									
								
								
									
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										Robert Tanitch reviews Speech & Debate at Trafalgar Studios 2, London SW1 Tony Award winning playwright Stephen Karam’s autobiographical Speech & Debate is a dark comedy about adolescent hang- ...									
								
								
									
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										Robert Tanitch reviews Sikes & Nancy and Miss Havisham’s Expectations at Trafalgar Studios 2, London SW1 These two monologues are quite separate, each lasting an hour. One is based on Charles Dick ...									
								
								
									
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