Brief description: Playbill for 'Nicholas Nickleby or Doings at Do-The-Boys Hall!', Theatre Royal Adelphi, 26 November 1838
Label: This play was adapted by Edward Stirling before “Nicholas Nickleby” was even halfway through its serialised publication – the result is an entirely different ending from Dickens’s story. Stirling was the most prolific adaptor of Dickens’s works at the time. Dickens himself saw the play twice and did not seem to mind Stirling’s adaptions as much as other playwrights (like Moncrieff at the New Strand Theatre).
Collection: Object
Object number: DH779
Object type: playbill
Production date: 1838
Credit line: Purchased with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Friends of the National Libraries and the Dickens Fellowship.

Playbill for Nicholas Nickleby at the Theatre Royal Adelphi, 1838