The Cricket on the Hearth

Playscript for a stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's novella The Cricket on the Hearth dramatised by Albert Smith in 3 acts. Part of the Dicks' Standard play series (number 394) such scripts were sold cheaply for one penny and were used for amateur and professional performances of the play. Stage adaptations of Charles Dickens works appeared very quickly after the first few chapters of the part works were published. Theatres employed resident dramatists to adapt the part works for the stage and even predicted how the novel may end before publication, often with surprising results.