The Frozen Deep
And Other Stories
Description:... The Frozen Deep is a play written collaboratively by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. Collins began the play in 1856, and Dickens later revised the play by altering lines and adding a preface. Dickens himself even acted in several performances of the play. The drama is based on the 1845 Franklin expedition. The ill-fated expedition set off to explore the Northwest Passage, but soon after the team had left, they were never heard from again. Eskimos, however, reported seeing some crew members alive and partaking in cannibalism as a last means of survival. The play rebukes the Eskimos? assertion, reviving the characters of the men on the expedition. The first performance of The Frozen Deep occurred on January 5, 1875 at the Tavistock House. Both Collins and Dickens acted in the play with Collins in the role of Frank Aldersley and Dickens playing Richard Wardour.
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