of people once their backs are turned. Miss Snevellicci: The talented leading lady of the Crummles troupe. She and Nicholas flirt heavily, and there is a mutual attraction, but nothing comes of it. She eventually leaves the troupe to get married. Mr Lenville: A melodramatic, self-centred tragedian, who becomes jealous of the attention Nicholas is receiving as an actor, and attempts to pull his nose in front of the company, an act which results in the actor himself being knocked down and his cane broken by Nicholas. Analysis Arthur Adrian has examined the effect on Yorkshire schools of their representation in the novel. Galia Benzimann has investigated the sociopolitical ramifications and artistic manner of Dickens depiction of Dotheboys School, in the context of boarding school education in northern England and child labour concerns in general. Joseph Childers has studied the themes of commerce and business in the novel. Carolyn Dever has examined the depiction of emotional states and character in the novel via such genres as melodrama. Timothy Gilmore has analysed the presentation of capitalism and commodification in the novel. Richard Hannaford has discussed Dickens's use of fairy tale motifs in the novel. Mark M. Hennelly, Jr. has critiqued various scenes and performances of astonishment as an element of theatricality in the novel. Carol Hanbery Mackay has examined the use of techniques of melodrama in the novel. Andrew Mangham has studied parallels in depictions away from strict realism between William Hogarth and Dickens, in the specific context of the latter's Nicholas Nickleby. Sylvia Manning has examined Dickens use of comic parody in contrast with more serious depictions of similar plot elements in the overall narrative. Jerome Meckier has discussed structural aspects of the novel on two levels, the serial structure and the overall single-narrative structure. Tore Rem has critiqued the role of the Crummles episodes in the novel. Leslie Thompson has evaluated the soliloquies of Mrs. Nickleby in the novel. Leona Toker has commented on the presence of elements related to the discourse on Lent, with particular relation to hunger and fasting, in the novel. Adaptations Theatre The novel has been adapted for stage, film or television at least seven times. The earliest theatrical version actually appeared before publication of the serialised novel was finished, with the resolution of the stage play wildly different from that of the eventual finished novel. Dickens's offence at this plagiarism prompted him to have