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Washington State's YMCA Youth & Coverment 2014 Mock Trial Case
In recent years, our mock trial cases have celebrated the 200th birthdays of Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Lord Tennyson. This year, it is Charles Dickens’ turn. True his 200th birthday slipped by us on February 7, 2012 but the first quarter of 2014 marks the centennial of one of the most famous mock trials of all time. In January of 1914, with G.K. Chesterton acting as judge and George Bernard Shaw as the prosecutor, a mock trial convened to get to the bottom of Dickens’ unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. (For the record, that murder prosecution of choirmaster John Jasper ended in a mistrial.)
We’re going to pick up the thread of that old investigation this year. Of course Dickens’ open narrative hasn’t stood still during the 143 years since he put it down. To serve our purposes, his facts have been placed into a literary mash-up blender to which we’ve added such modernisms as Internet brides, insider trading scandals, police drones and the upside down assembly of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. For flavouring, some elements from other Dickens works have been tossed in and maybe even a little of the 2012 popular novel Gone Girl…
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