Editing David Copperfield (section)

==Adaptations==

===Earliest adaptations===
While it was being published, ''David Copperfield'' was the object, according to Philip Bolton's survey, of six initial dramatisations, followed by a further twenty when the public's interest was at its peak in the 1850s.<ref>{{cite book |first=H Philip |last=Bolton |title=Dickens Dramatized |location=Boston |publisher=G K Hall |year=1987 |pages=xviii, 501 |isbn=978-0-8161-8924-3}}</ref> The first adaptation, ''Born with a Caul'' by [[George Almar]], was staged while the serial issues were not yet completed, with some changes from Dickens's plot, having Steerforth live and marry Emily, and inventing a character to kill Mr Murdstone.<ref name=Davis1999pp9293>{{harvnb|Davis|1999|pages=92–93}}</ref> The most spectacular dramatisation, however, were those of Dickens himself. Although he waited more than ten years to prepare a version for his public readings, it soon became one of his favourite performances, especially the storm scene, which he kept for the finale, "the most sublime moment in all the readings".<ref>{{harvnb|Collins|1996|pp=216–217}}</ref>

===Fiction===

* [[Barbara Kingsolver]]'s 2022 novel, ''[[Demon Copperhead]]'', closely parallels the events, characters, and moral trajectory of Dickens' novel but is set in late-twentieth-century/early-twenty-first-century [[Appalachia]].<ref>"It’s a brave writer who takes on a retelling of Dickens, and of David Copperfield, the most personal of his novels, at that. And yet the American author Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead – which transposes this very English, quasi-autobiographical Bildungsroman to her own home territory of Appalachia – feels in many ways like the book she was born to write." {{Cite web |date=2022-11-10 |title=Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver review – Dickens updated |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/10/demon-copperhead-by-barbara-kingsolver-review-dickens-updated |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=The Guardian|location=London}}</ref>

===Radio===
*''Favourite Story'', hosted by [[Ronald Colman]] – 25 October 1947
*''[[The United States Steel Hour|Theater Guild on the Air]]'' – 24 December 1950 with [[Richard Burton]], [[Boris Karloff]], [[Flora Robson]] and [[Cyril Ritchard]]
*''The Personal History of David Copperfield'' – [[BBC Radio 4]], 1991 – a ten-part series adapted by [[Betty Davies (radio)|Betty Davies]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.radioechoes.com/?page=series&genre=Drama&series=David%20Copperfield |title=David Copperfield, Drama in 10 episodes |date=14 September 1991 |work=Radio Echoes |access-date=12 March 2019}}</ref> with [[Gary Cady]] as David Copperfield, [[Miriam Margolyes]], [[John Moffatt (actor)|John Moffatt]], [[Timothy Spall]] and [[Sheila Hancock]]
* Performed unabridged on Audible by Richard Armitage 2018

===Film and TV===
''David Copperfield'' has been filmed on several occasions:[[File:David Copperfield lobby card.jpg|thumb|right|''[[David Copperfield (1935 film)|David Copperfield]]'' (1935)]]
*1911: ''[[David Copperfield (1911 film)|David Copperfield]]'', silent film directed by [[Theodore Marston]]
*1913: ''[[David Copperfield (1913 film)|David Copperfield]]'', silent film directed by [[Thomas Bentley (director)|Thomas Bentley]]
*1922: ''[[David Copperfield (1922 film)|David Copperfield]]'', silent film directed by [[A. W. Sandberg]]
*1935: ''[[Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (1935)|David Copperfield]]'', a film directed by [[George Cukor]], featuring [[W. C. Fields]]
*1956: ''[[David Copperfield (1956 TV serial)|David Copperfield]]'', a 13-part TV serial shown on BBC. No recordings are known to exist.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QkpGDwAAQBAJ&q=david+copperfield+1956+bbc&pg=PT61|title=Television Cities: Paris, London, Baltimore|first=Charlotte|last=Brunsdon|date=19 January 2018|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=9780822372516|via=Google Books}}</ref>
*1966: ''[[David Copperfield (1966 TV serial)|David Copperfield]]'', a 13-part TV serial. Only four of the thirteen episodes are known to exist.<ref>{{cite news |work=M2 Presswire |date=26 October 1995 |title=December delights}}</ref> 
*1969: ''[[David Copperfield (1969 film)|David Copperfield]]'', a TV film directed by [[Delbert Mann]]
*1974: ''[[David Copperfield (1974 TV serial)|David Copperfield]]'', a 6-part TV serial directed by Joan Craft
*1983: ''[[David Copperfield (1983 film)|David Copperfield]]'', an animated film by [[Burbank Films Australia]]
*1986: ''[[David Copperfield (1986 TV serial)|David Copperfield]]'', a 10-part TV serial directed by [[Barry Letts]], shown on BBC
*1993: ''[[David Copperfield (1993 film)|David Copperfield]]'', animated TV film, shown on [[NBC]]
*1999: ''[[David Copperfield (1999 film)|David Copperfield]]'', a 2-part TV serial shown on [[BBC]]
*2000: ''[[David Copperfield (2000 film)|David Copperfield]]'', a TV film directed by [[Peter Medak]]
*2019: ''[[The Personal History of David Copperfield]]'', a film directed by [[Armando Iannucci]]