Thomas Gradgrind is the notorious school board Superintendent in Dickens's 1854 novel Hard Times who is dedicated to the pursuit of profitable enterprise...

Gradgrind's children, go after school to see the touring circus run by Mr. Sleary, only to meet their father, who orders them home. Mr. Gradgrind has...

The Interrogation by Roy Williams (2012–present) and starred as Thomas Gradgrind in BBC Radio's 2007 adaptation of Dickens' Hard Times. His first wife...

Affair at Styles") and Wallander. In 1994, Edney played the role of Louisa Gradgrind in the television adaptation of Charles Dickens' Hard Times. In 1995,...

Howells – Mrs. Gradgrind Harry Markham – Sleary Jacqueline Tong – Louisa Gradgrind Timothy West – Josiah Bounderby Richard Wren – Tom Gradgrind Sean Flanagan...

umbrella from the character Mrs Gamp, and "Pickwickian", "Pecksniffian" and "Gradgrind" all entered dictionaries due to Dickens's original portraits of such...

series 1994 Verdi Giuseppe Verdi Direct-to-TV film Hard Times Thomas Gradgrind Television series 1996 The Merchant of Venice Shylock Direct-to-TV film...

stage roles, along with many BBC productions, including appearing as Mr Gradgrind in a television production of Dickens' Hard Times in 1977.[citation needed]...

Venice – Portia – Bristol Old Vic, Bristol 1975: Hard Times – Louisa Gradgrind – Bristol Old Vic, Bristol 1976: Three Women – Main Role – Studio Theatre...

house stage. From September 1996 to May 1997, Jones played the young Tom Gradgrind (a non-singing role) in a large-scale national touring production of Charles...

realizes that he loves her, she marries Joe Gargery. Bitzer A student in Gradgrind's school of hard facts. Later a light porter in Bounderby's bank in Hard...

Artful Dodger Wilson Radjou-Pujalte 7–14, 20 4–7, 10 Oliver Twist Thomas Gradgrind Richard Durden 10–19 5–10 Hard Times Sally Compeyson Antonia Bernath 12–17...

charactonyms as a stylistic technique include Charles Dickens (e.g., Mr. Gradgrind, the tyrannical schoolmaster) and William Shakespeare (e.g., the lost...

novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens. Bransby Williams as Gradgrind Leon M. Lion as Tom Gradgrind Dorothy Bellew as Louisa Madge Tree as Rachael Mr. Forrest...

as Thelma Furness in Always at the Victoria Palace Theatre, as Louisa Gradgrind in Hard Times at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and as Aggie and cover Laurey...

Heartbeat, "Rumours"-Pendleton, dir. James Ormerod for YTV; 1991 "Josie"-Gradgrind, dir. Geoff Posner for Pozitive Productions; 1991 "Woof"-Doctor, dir....

philanthropy. At once autocratic and bureaucratic, the Board became a gradgrind employer, paying rock bottom wages in kind for hard labour on public works...

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accommodate the new workers. The factory building itself has been labelled as “Gradgrind" architecture, a name inspired by an inflexible, dictatorial Dickens character...

Royal England, a Story of an Empire's Throne (1911); Hard Times (1915) as Gradgrind; the title role in Adam Bede (1918); The Adventures of Mr Pickwick (1921);...

awarded five stars by FringeReview Hard Times, Warehouse Theatre, 2008. Gradgrind, UK Tour, 2008. The Odyssey, UK Tour, 2007. The Canterbury Tales, UK Tour...

1-25. London: Kluwer Law International, 1997. With John E. Nilsson. "Gradgrind's Education: Using Dickens and Aristotle to Understand (and Replace?) the...