Talk:The Mystery of Edwin Drood

message: What is meant by the phrase Jekyll-and-Hyde-esque. Does the character actually take a potion which releases his less-inhibited and more violent side? 69.95.233.246 15:03, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Jekyll-and-Hyde motif is often used to descibe people whose actions seemed to be inconsistant, and the phrase used to be casually used to describe someone suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder. When people talk about Jekyll and Hyde, the potion isn't the first thing they think of. JustIgnoreMe 15:40, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the portrayal of Jasper as having a split personality is feature of the musical not the novel. In the novel although he suffers from occasional momentary debilitating seizures and occasional momentary angry rages, he has a single duplicitous personality. --teb728 02:19, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jekyll-and-Hyde-esque 

message: The text says that each installment cost one shilling. Is there a source for this? The illustration – apparently the cover of the last installment written is marked 18 pence. --teb728 08:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Installment cost 

message: I keep getting a bit jarred when I get to the talk page to see that this has been claimed by WikiProject: Films despite the fact that there's about a paragraph's-worth of information about the films, and the film in question could be any of four. I guess my point is that the film or films should either be forked into their own entries (which can THEN fall under the aegis of WP:FILM), or, barring anyone knowing or caring enough about the movies to go to that effort, drop the WP:FILM tags entirely. At the very least, we should drop the infobox dictating how to bring it up to "Start-class" for WP:FILM, as putting a film infobox on this page would just be...silly. It's about a book, no? ChrisStansfield Contribs 11:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you start a film article with all the films described, then you can move the films tag to the films article's talk page, and WP:FILMS will stop putting it here.  Then you can just cross-link the films article from here.  Of course, all the links that have to do with the film will need to be moved over to the films article.  (Click on "What links here" to the left of the article).  That's always the most time consuming part of splitting articles.  Best regards, -- Ssilvers 13:30, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it was a dirty job, but someone had to do it. I created a page for the 1935 film, another for the 1993 film, and I went though the "What links here" list and moved about 100 links from here to the films and musical. ChrisStansfield Contribs 16:22, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP:FILMS? 

message: I've added a bit of detail about the 1873 "James Version', both since it can still be found in some libraries (my parents have a copy) and Doyle got involved in the business. However, I don't want anyone thinking that I'm endorsing it or Spiritualism. Can someone work on better phrasing of this part? CFLeon (talk) 01:02, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The 'James Version'

message: "[Albert] Field believed he had solved a legendary literary whodunit, Charles Dickens' unfinished "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," and was trying to get his analysis published when he died at 86, according to his friend." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081012/ap_on_re_us/playing_card_collection
Albert Field's solution was actually published in 2017! Perhaps it should be added to the main article? https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Edwin-Drood-Solution-Discovered-ebook/dp/B072Q7S2HQ Steven.t.keller (talk) 02:47, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Albert Field 

message: Perhaps we should mention Dan Simmons' new novel in this article. Jamhaw (talk) 19:01, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Drood A Novel

message: The speculation about Datchery is unsourced. I suspect it is original research (which may not be included in Wikipedia articles). It should be deleted unless reliable source(s) is/are provided. —teb728 t c 00:24, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dick Datchery 

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message: There's a new ten-part series on Radio 4 for Christmas 2020, adapted by Mike Walker and starring Joel McCormack as Jasper, Iwan Davies as Drood, Isabella Inchbald as Rosa and Pippa Nixon as Dickens's daughter, Kate, in the role of narrator.
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thread_title:  2020 BBC Radio adaptation