The School of Life
Charles Dickens
How much do you know about the life of Charles Dickens? A thorough video discusses the author's professional successes and private failures with engaging animation and informative narration.
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Pbs Learning Media: Great Expectations 3: Happily Ever After?
This video excerpt is the moving, final scene from the 2012 Masterpiece adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Pip, returned to his humble origins, hears that Estella, now a widow, has returned to Satis House. As he...
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Pbs Learning Media: Great Expectations 2: Becoming a Gentleman
In this video excerpt from the 2012 Masterpiece adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, months have passed since Pip received the news that a mysterious benefactor has provided money for his education as a gentleman. When Joe...
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Pbs Learning Media: David Copperfield 2: Comedy and Character
Explore how Dickens's skill in creating memorable secondary characters help make his works not only memorable, but has kept them popular for more than 160 years in this video excerpt from the Masterpiece adaptation of Charles Dickens'...
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Pbs Learning Media: David Copperfield 1: Meeting Mr. Murdstone
Explore how filmmakers bring characters to life in this video from Masterpiece: "David Copperfield." David's first encounter with his cruel stepfather, Mr. Murdstone, shatters his idyllic childhood and begins his journey to adulthood....
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Pbs Learning Media: Charles Dickens: David Copperfield Collection
This is a collection of three videos from MASTERPIECE: Charles Dickens: David Copperfield. Together they explore the Dickens' famous novel "David Copperfield" in a film adaptation of the novel.
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Pbs Learning Media: David Copperfield 3: David and Aunt Betsey
Analyze the filmmakers' choices when adapting a Dickens novel into a film. In this pivotal scene from the 2000 Masterpiece production of "David Copperfield," David, destitute and desperate, approaches his formidable Aunt Betsey for the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Great Expectations 1: Setting the Scene
This video excerpt is the opening scene from the 2012 Masterpiece adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. A man mysteriously emerges from a marsh to ominous music. A young boy, Pip, is shown briefly in a church graveyard,...
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British Library: The Origins of a Christmas Carol
Professor Michael Slater MBE explains the background to Charles Dickens's novel, A Christmas Carol, reveals his reasons for writing it, and discusses its monumental success. [12:29]
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British Library: Class Mobility in Great Expectations
Professor John Bowen discusses class and social mobility in Charles Dickens's novel, Great Expectations.
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British Library: Oliver Twist: Depicting Crime and Poverty
In Oliver Twist, Dickens paints a vivid picture of London's criminal underworld, a subject he harnesses both to excite the reader and to explore the effects of social deprivation. [8:10]
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British Library: The Gothic in Great Expectations
"Great Expectations" is a novel full of strange repetitions, hauntings and doublings. In this video, Professor John Bowen explores the work's Gothic motifs. [7:51]
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British Library: Simon Callow on Dickens as a Performer
Simon Callow discusses Charles Dickens's performances, his abilities as an actor, and the impact of his readings upon his audiences and the wider public. [2:32]