Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
This wonderful play has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the Kenwigs and many more.
Combining these with typically Dickensian elements of burlesque and farce, it is eminently suited to dramatic adaptation. "Nicholas Nickleby" has never ceased to delight and is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic masterpieces of nineteenth-century.