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46 mins. Yin Zhengkai may be the heir to Yin Holdings, but he is under the control of his sister, Zhengwen, and the board of directors. He sneaks out to have some fun and gets into trouble with a drunkard. Lexuan comes to his rescue, and he is attracted to her.
- Joanne Peh, Julie Tan, Rui En
- 2011
- drama, romance
A Tale of 2 Cities (Chinese: 乐在双城; pinyin: Lè Zài Shuāng Chéng) is a Singaporean Chinese drama which was co-produced by Media Prima Berhad and MediaCorp TV. It was telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air terrestrial television channel form MediaCorp TV Channel 8.
CastRoleDescriptionZhang Yale 章雅乐Mei Jinfeng's niece Designer for ...Pan Leyao 潘乐瑶Pan Jiaxiang and Wang Cuilan's daughter ...Lin Wentao 林文涛"Blissful Times" photographer Adopted son ...Mei Jinfeng 梅金凤"Blissful Times" lady boss Instructor of ...- Idol Drama Romance
A Tale of Two Cities: With Paul Shelley, Ralph Michael, Sally Osborne, Vivien Merchant. During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay who's hiding his true identity and purpose.
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- 1980-10-05
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A Tale of Two Cities is a British television series which first aired on BBC 1 in 1980. It is an adaptation of the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Paul Shelley plays the duel roles of Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, the first actor to do so since William Farnum in the 1917 silent adaptation.
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While performing in The Frozen Deep, Dickens was given a play to read called The Dead Heart by Watts Phillips which had the historical setting, the basic storyline, and the climax that Dickens used in A Tale of Two Cities. The play was produced while A Tale of Two Cities was being serialised in All the Year Roundand led to talk of plagiarism. Other...
The 45-chapter novel was published in 31 weekly instalments in Dickens's new literary periodical titled All the Year Round. From April to November 1859, Dickens also republished the chapters as eight monthly sections in green covers. All but three of Dickens's previous novels had appeared as monthly instalments prior to publication as books. The fi...
A Tale of Two Cities is one of only two works of historical fiction by Charles Dickens (the other being Barnaby Rudge). Dickens uses literal translations of French idioms for characters who cannot speak English, such as "What the devil do you do in that galley there?!!" and "Where is my wife? … Here you see me."The Penguin Classics edition of the n...
The reports published in the press were divergent. Thomas Carlyle was enthusiastic, which made the author "heartily delighted". On the other hand, Mrs. Oliphant found "little of Dickens" in the novel. The critic James Fitzjames Stephencalled it a "dish of puppy pie and stewed cat which is not disguised by the cooking" and "a disjointed framework fo...
Films
1. A Tale of Two Cities, a 1911 silent film. 2. A Tale of Two Cities, a 1917 silent film. 3. A Tale of Two Cities, a 1922 silent film. 4. The Only Way, a 1927 silent British film directed by Herbert Wilcox. 5. A Tale of Two Cities, a 1935 black-and-white film starring Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, and Edna May Oliver, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. 6. A Tale of Two Cities, a 1958 version, starring Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Christopher Lee...
Radio
1. On 8 April 1935, WCAE in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, presented A Tale of Two Cities"in chapter sequence" on Monday nights. 2. On 25 July 1938, The Mercury Theatre on the Air produced a radio adaptation starring Orson Welles. Welles also starred in a version broadcast on Lux Radio Theateron 26 March 1945. 3. Ronald Colman recreated his 1935 film role three times on radio: twice on the Lux Radio Theatre, first on 12 January 1942 with Edna Best and again on 18 March 1946 with Heather Angel, and...
Television
1. ABC produced a two-part mini-series in 1953. 2. The BBC produced an eight-part mini-series in 1957 starring Peter Wyngarde as Sydney Carton, Edward de Souza as Charles Darnay and Wendy Hutchinsonas Lucie Manette. 3. The BBC produced a ten-part mini-series in 1965 starring John Wood as Carton, Nicholas Pennell as Charles Darnay, Kika Markham as Lucie Manette and Patrick Troughtonas Dr Manette. 4. The BBC produced another eight-part mini-series in 1980 starring Paul Shelley as Carton/Darnay,...
A Tale of Two Cities served as an inspiration to the 2012 Batman film The Dark Knight Rises by Christopher Nolan. The character of Bane is in part inspired by Dickens's Madame Defarge: He organises kangaroo court trials against the ruling elite of the city of Gotham and is seen knitting in one of the trial scenes like Madame Defarge. There are othe...
Biedermann, Hans. Dictionary of Symbolism. New York: Meridian (1994) ISBN 978-0-452-01118-2Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Edited and with an introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell. London: Penguin Classics (2003) ISBN 978-0-14-143960-0Drabble, Margaret, ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (1985) ISBN 0-19-866130-4Alleyn, Susanne. The Annotated A Tale of Two Cities. Albany, New York: Spyderwort Press (2014) ISBN 978-1535397438Glancy, Ruth. Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge (2006) ISBN 978-0-415-28760-9Sanders, Andrew. The Companion to A Tale of Two Cities. London: Unwin Hyman (1989) ISBN 978-0-04-800050-7Out of print.A Tale of Two Cities at Standard EbooksA Tale of Two Cities at Project Gutenberg'Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities', lecture by Dr. Tony Williams on the writing of the book, at Gresham College on 3 July 2007 (with video and audio files available for download, as well as the transc...A Tale of Two Cities summary, Charles Dickens- Charles Dickens
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