Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities - Dr Tony Williams - Gresham College Lecture Notes.

• Third city (Manchester)
• Came up with story while acting
• Dicken's says that he has done and suffered everything written in his pages- personal identity
• 1857- assisted in writing "The Frozen Deep"
• Played Richard Water (hero)
• Inspired by 1845 Franklin expedition to Arctic in finding NW passage
• Sacrifice shown with Lucy, Charles and Sydney in "Tale of Two Cities"
• Believed public performance should not be done by friends and family, but professional players be engaged
• Met Ellen Turnen and fell in love
• She played character in "The Frozen Deep" named Lucy
• Makes her Lucie in "Tale of Two Cities"
• Got ideas from "The Frozen Deep" ?
• 1858- began public reading for profit
• Became greatest reader of greatest writer
• 1858- separated from Catherine
• Main cities are London and Paris
• 10 year old boy in London-privation and suffering gave extensive and peculiar knowledge of city
• Refers to London as a newspaper
• London was a maze for him
• 1844- first visit to Paris
• Good view towards Paris
• Reminds readers of Prevision landscape
• 1844-1868: visited Paris 15 times
• Drawn to visit the morgue
• Uses historical setting for parallels
• "Tale of Two Cities" brings out real revolutions and violence
• Book came out in weekly parts
• Good friends with a guy named Carlise who was a writer
• Storming of Bastille- demonstrates how he can build up momentum and mobility
• Goes in description of violence and refers to the novel