Nicholas Nickleby: A Farce in 2 Acts
Author: first_name: Edward 
last_name: Stirling
Language: English
Year: 1858

This stage adaptation of Dickens’ novel debuted in November of 1838 at the Adelphi Theater in London.  Only eight installments of the story had been published at that time, therefore several characters such as the theatrical Crummles family who play an important part in the latter half of the text do not appear in this work.  The ending of this adaptation is also wholly a creation of playwright Edward Stirling, not novelist Dickens. Charles Dickens attended a performance of the play which starre