Schwab, Gabriele (1996) "Chapter 2: Nonsense and Metacommunication: Lewis Carroll, "Alice on the Stage, The Theatre, April 1887, Astronomical and Meteorological Observations Made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, Vol. [13]:69 The Dormouse tells a story about three little sisters named Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie. 1895 – A New Alice in the Old Wonderland, a novel by Anna M. Richards in which a different Alice, Alice Lee, travels to Wonderland and meets many of the characters of Carroll's books as well as others. She accidentally knocks over the jury box with the animals inside them and the King orders the animals be placed back into their seats before the trial continues. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. She subsequently eats a cake labelled "EAT ME" in currants as the chapter closes. [30] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into at least 97 languages,[4] or as many as 174 languages. [18], In the eighth chapter, three cards are painting the roses on a rose tree red, because they had accidentally planted a white-rose tree that The Queen of Hearts hates. Alice, thinking he may be a French mouse, tries to make small talk with him in elementary French. [13]:172 The illustrations of the Lion and the Unicorn (also in Looking-Glass) bear a striking resemblance to Tenniel's Punch illustrations of Gladstone and Disraeli as well. “When we were little,” the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, “we went to school in the sea. "I have kissed it several times — for want of having you to kiss, you know, even hair is better than nothing.". Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske. Restored ! [17], Most of the book's adventures may have been based on or influenced by people, situations, and buildings in Oxford and at Christ Church. For example, instead of considering two or three apples, one may easily consider the concept of 'apple', upon which the concepts of 'two' and 'three' may seem to depend. One of the best-known and most popular works of English-language fiction, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. The Cheshire Cat explains to Alice that everyone in Wonderland is mad, including Alice herself. Chapter One – Down the Rabbit Hole: Alice, a seven-year-old girl, is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on the riverbank with her elder sister. One side makes her shrink smaller than ever, while another causes her neck to grow high into the trees, where a pigeon mistakes her for a serpent. In the article “Alice on the Stage“, Lewis Carroll explains more about the characters he created and gives his own descriptions of them. This goth-toned rock musical premiered in 2006 at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth, England. References, homages, reworkings and derivative works can be found in many works of literature, film, theatre, visual art, music, and games (such as playing cards). Chapter Ten – Lobster Quadrille: The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon dance to the Lobster Quadrille, while Alice recites (rather incorrectly) "'Tis the Voice of the Lobster". [15] One of Tenniel's illustrations in Through the Looking-Glass—the 1871 sequel to Alice—depicts the character referred to as the "Man in White Paper" (whom Alice meets as a fellow passenger riding on the train with her) as a caricature of Disraeli, wearing a paper hat. Carroll was also known as a keen photographer and he took photos of nude and semi-nude children - including a full-frontal nude shot of Alice's sister Lorina. 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