DEVENTER, Netherlands — The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens' books to life.

Dickens is a name synonymous with the cold, winding, dark streets of Victorian England; colourful and eccentric characters with ... John Dickens was released and Charles was sent to the private ...

It’s a play-within-a-play, a musical, a melodramatic comedy and it’s filled with audience participation, as audience members are encouraged to hiss and boo the play’s villains.

He concentrates on a few novelists--Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope ... the authors who kept the Jew-villain in circulation created their man with a good deal ...

The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens' books to life. Oliver Twist ...