Nicholas Nickleby: resumen de Chapter 23
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In Chapter 23, Nicholas reaches Portsmouth with Smike and Mr. Vincent Crummles, meets the theatrical company, and discovers its family favoritism and professional jealousies. Crummles assigns him a French play to translate and several roles to learn, while Nicholas secures modest lodgings without paying rent in advance.
Qué sucede
- Nicholas and Smike travel to Portsmouth with Crummles and his sons, then enter the shabby theater.
- Mrs. Crummles welcomes them, and Nicholas watches Miss Ninetta Crummles perform a ballet with Mr. Folair.
- Folair privately attacks the favoritism surrounding the manager’s daughter, while Nicholas meets other members of the company.
- Crummles announces a new play under Nicholas’s care, then explains that he must translate a French script.
- After sharing the Crummles family’s dinner, Nicholas receives several acting parts to study.
- Nicholas finds two inexpensive rooms above a tobacconist’s shop and tries to postpone his worries.
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Crummles treats translating an existing play as the answer to Nicholas’s worries about invention. The instruction defines Nicholas’s immediate writing task.
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What does Crummles actually require Nicholas to do for the new play?
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