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The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Definition and Overview |
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was left unfinished at the time of Dickens' death, and readers have often speculated what the ending might have been.
It was filmed in 1935 by Universal Pictures. Directed by Stuart Walker, it starred Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, Valerie Hobson and David Manners.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (later renamed Drood) was a musical comedy adaptation (by Rupert Holmes) of Dickens's novel, which was first produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, and which opened on Broadway in 1985 and has since played successfully in regional productions. The audience votes which of the characters is the murderer: brief alternate endings are provided for each potential killer, even the most unlikely. Betty Buckley, Cleo Laine, George Rose, Donna Murphy, Judy Kuhn, and Howard McGillin were in the cast.
Publication
The Mystery of Edwin Drood was scheduled to be published in twelve installments (shorter than Dickens' usual twenty) from April 1870 to March 1871, each costing one shilling and illustrated by S.L. Fildes. Only six were completed by Dickens' 1870 death. Some claim that the novel was one-third complete, but actually, it is exactly half finished.
- I - April 1870 (chapters 1-4);
- II - May 1870 (chapters 5-9);
- III - June 1870 (chapters 10-12);
- IV - July 1870 (chapters 13-16);
- V - August 1870 (chapters 17-20);
- VI - September 1870 (chapters 21-23);
- VII - October 1870 (planned);
- VIII - November 1870 (planned);
- IX - December 1870 (planned);
- X - January 1871 (planned);
- XI - February 1871 (planned);
- XII - March 1871 (planned).
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