The Mystery of Edwin Drood won only one Drama Desk award -- for sound design -- and that was a three-way tie. Here's hoping for better things at the Tonys!
An 1867 reference to Dickens's "cashy, good-natured, shrewd English face" sent Anatoly Liberman at the Oxford University Press blog off on a hunt for the meaning and origin of the word cashy. Thanks to The Buzfuz for the link!
Slate's Forrest Wickman makes a convincing case that the blockbuster movie is inspired by A Christmas Carol -- having previously shown just how much The Dark Knight Rises was inspired by A Tale of Two Cities. I like the way this man thinks.
(In related news, thanks to Christy for sending along another piece that traces the Dickens-Dark Knight connection.)
BBC One has comissioned a new drama series called Dickensian, in which "characters from the author's novels cross paths in 'the most surprising of ways'." (More info here.) Seems to me we already did that -- let's hope they do as good a job as we did, eh? ;-) In all seriousness, I'm envisioning a Dickens-themed sort of Once Upon a Time, which should be pretty interesting! Longtime BBC writer Tony Jordan will be doing the writing.
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