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
Nicholas Nickleby (1912 film) Nicholas amongst friends, and the film ends. The primary cast of the film includes: A print of the film is preserved at the British Film Institute. The film is included as an extra on the Vintage Classics DVD of the 1947 adaptation of the book. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nicholas-Nickleby-DVD-Cedric-Hardwicke/dp/B006C1873I/ref=sr_1_7?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1478803000&sr=1-7&keywords=nicholas+nickleby+dvd In 2007, the film was included on "The Thanhouser Collection: Volumes 7 8 and 9" DVD release. Nicholas Nickleby (1912 film) Nicholas Nickleby is a 1912 American silent short drama film directed by George Nichols, adapted from Charles Dickens' 1839 novel of the same name. The two-reel film stars Harry Benham in the title