alice's adventures in wonderland & through the looking glass

Alice follows it across the field and it disappears into a rabbit hole. ' Alice' steps forward, suddenly seeing an unusual rabbit brush past her, wearing a waistcoat and a watch, and complaining that it is late. As Dodgson and company sit on a riverbank and listen to the story he is spinning, Alice Liddell becomes the fictional ' Alice'.Īlice's adventures in Wonderland Alice Liddell asks for a story, as all disembark from the boat, Dodgson begins to tell one.

On the 4th of July 1862, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), his friend the Canon Duckworth, and the three Liddell sisters, Alice Liddell, Lorina Liddell, and Edith Liddell, drift down the Oxford stretch of the river Thames. Dodgson wrote the stories down, and much later, presented the manuscript of Alice's adventures Underground to Alice Liddell in November 1864. In his version, Mitchell uses a fictionalized version of the biographically famous 'Golden Afternoon' on the 4th of July 1862, when Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) first told the stories that would become the Alice novels to his friend Canon Robinson Duckworth and the Liddell children, Alice, Lorina, and Edith. Mitchell's adaptation originated as a commission from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is a 2001 stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass.

Alice's adventures in wonderland & through the looking glass