Sue's Reviews > Is She His Wife? Or, Something Singular, a Comic Burletta

A comic play from Dickens read with the Dickensians group. This is a satire on marriage which depends on confusion and misdirection for its humor. The first scene (act) or set up is scatterbrained and effective. The second provides all the necessary comic corrections and insults but in a definite mid-eighteenth century style that saps some of the humor created earlier. Interesting to read another view of Dickens but no comparison to his novels. And they really can’t be as these are short pieces.