Alice In Wonderland A Dramatization Of Lewis Carroll S Alice S Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass

This wonderful book contains a dramatisation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The play is illustrated by the delightful illustrations of J. Allen St. John. This book was originally published in 1915 and Pook Press are reprinting it for adults and children to enjoy once again.

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Considered the first real dramatization of the "Alice" stories, it was produced on Broadway to considerable critical attention and acclaim. All the familiar characters from both "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" appear in this timeless adaptation by this popular playwright. Lewis Carroll visits Alice one day for tea and thus starts Alice's fascinating adventures as she travels through the looking-glass and steps right into the nonsense stories. Along the way she meets the time obsessive White Rabbit, the mysterious Cheshire Cat, bumbling brothers Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Mad Hatter and his unconventional tea party guests, and the unpleasant Queen of Hearts along with the rest of Carroll's famous characters. Alice soon finds herself embroiled in the trial of the stolen tarts and must rescue herself from this strange land. Considered one of the finest adaptations of the stories, "Alice in Wonderland" continues to entertain and hold audiences captive with its unique style.

Title: Alice in Wonderland: A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" Author: Alice Gerstenberg & Lewis Carroll This dramatic rendering of Alice in Wonderland, was produced by The Players Producing Company of Chicago (Aline Barnsdall and Arthur Bissell), at the Fine Arts Theater, Chicago, February 11, 1915. After a successful run it opened at the Booth Theater, New York, March 23, 1915. The illustrations of the characters of the play in this book were illustrated by Caour L. Chgaig.

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The story centres on Alice, a young girl who falls asleep in a meadow and dreams that she follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole. She has many wondrous, often bizarre adventures with thoroughly illogical and very strange creatures, often changing size unexpectedly (she grows as tall as a house and shrinks to 3 inches [7 cm]). She encounters the hookah-smoking Caterpillar, the Duchess (with a baby that becomes a pig), and the Cheshire Cat, and she attends a strange endless tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. She plays a game of croquet with an unmanageable flamingo for a croquet mallet and uncooperative hedgehogs for croquet balls while the Queen calls for the execution of almost everyone present. Later, at the Queen's behest, the Gryphon takes Alice to meet the sobbing Mock Turtle, who describes his education in such subjects as Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Alice is then called as a witness in the trial of the Knave of Hearts, who is accused of having stolen the Queen's tarts. However, when the Queen demands that Alice be beheaded, Alice realizes that the characters are only a pack of cards, and she then awakens from her dream. The story was originally told by Carroll to Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell (the daughters of Henry George Liddell, dean of Christ Church, Oxford, where the author had studied and held a fellowship) on a picnic in July 1862. Alice asked Carroll to write out the stories for her, and in response he produced a hand-lettered collection entitled Alice's Adventures Under Ground. A visitor to the Liddell home saw the storybook and thought it should be published, so Carroll revised and expanded it. Appearing at a time when children's literature generally was intended to teach moral lessons, the book at first baffled critics, who failed to appreciate the nonsense that so captivated its young readers. But Carroll understood how children's minds worked, and the way he turned logic on its head appealed to their sense of the ridiculous. In the riddles and the poems-such as "How doth the little crocodile" and "You are old, Father William" (both parodies of well-known didactic poems)-he reached even more absurd heights. The work attracted a following and led to a sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (dated 1872 but published in December 1871). By the end of the 19th century, Alice (taking the two volumes together) had become the most popular children's book in England, and within two more decades it was among the most popular storybooks in the world. It inspired numerous films, theatrical performances, and ballets as well as countless works of scholarly analysis.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has inspired countless adaptations, retellings, and nods from subtle to overt, in the years since it was first published in 1865. This whimsical tale is fantastic to read as a child, with its ridiculous situations and nonsensical words, and loads of fun to come back to as an adult, as one of the first portal fantasies in literature.