The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play) reception was enthusiastic, critical reception was mixed. Frank Rich in "New York Times" reported dull passages piling up as "dead weight", while John Simon in the "New York Magazine" felt that the work was a "middlebrow enterprise" doing "scant justice" to the novel. In contrast Mel Gussow, again in "The New York Times", noted that ""Nicholas Nickleby" remains true to Dickens – many of the lines are taken directly from the novel, dialogue as well as narration – and to first principles of theater" when describing the RSC's recast production in 1986. Playwright and reviewer Thomas Hischak, writing in retrospect
Golden Square fictional Sink Street, off Golden Square. The Square also features in "Confessions Of An English Opium Eater" by Thomas De Quincey. It is there that he parts for the last time from Anne, the prostitute with whom he falls in love. Golden Square also features in Charles Dickens' works "David Copperfield" and "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby." In "Nickleby" it is the square where Ralph Nickleby lives in a spacious house and has his "establishment." Dickens describes the square thus Although a few members of the graver professions live about Golden Square, it is not exactly in anybody's