Word: tulkinghorn
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...world of Tulkinghorn, Snagsby, and Turveydrop is a somewhat exclusive one, but to those who have not yet been able to penetrate Dickens' wordy, comic society Williams offers extensive introductions. His thirty-five characters are each sharply etched, sometimes by a gesture of the performer, sometimes by a line from the author. As Mrs. Pardiggle, an officious do-gooder, Williams seems to puff out, his voice crispens, his eye arrests. And Dickens delineates shrewish Mrs. Snagsby with "she has a nose like a sharp autumn-evening, inclining to be frosty...
When Lawyer Tulkinghorn, starting to make good his threats, does not pay for her spying, Hortense shoots him. Lady Dedlock is suspected and dies on her lover's grave; the marriage bells ring in the last...
Margaret Anglin gives a fine performance, both as Hortense and Lady Dedlock; Mr. Tulkinghorn (John Ivancowich) is a snooping, grim figure; and a little woolly dog amuses everyone by bouncing about the stage. As drama, Lady Dedlock is heavy rather than strong, it contains too much...
...lecture will be followed with the reading of the scene between Hortense and Mr. Tulkinghorn, and Bob Crotchit's Christmas dinner...
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