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Returning characters
The characters of Hatta and Haigha (pronounced as the English would have said "hatter" and "hare") make an
appearance, and are pictured (by Sir John Tenniel, not by Carroll) to resemble their Wonderland counterparts, the
Hatter and the March Hare. However, Alice does not recognise them as such.
Dinah, Alice's cat, also makes a return this time with her two kittens; Kitty (the black one) and Snowdrop (the
white one). At the end of the book they are associated with the Red Queen and the White Queen respectively in the
looking glass world.
Though she does not appear, Alice's sister is mentioned. In both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The
Looking-Glass, there are puns and quips about two non-existing characters, Nobody and Somebody. Paradoxically,
the gnat calls Alice an old friend, though it was never introduced in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; however, the
Caterpillar in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland also refers to Alice as an "old friend", so could be another
counterpart, much like Hatta and Haigha.

Poems and songs

Prelude ("Child of the pure unclouded brow")
"Jabberwocky" (seen in the mirror-house) (Jabberwocky (full poem)
including readings)
"Tweedledum and Tweedledee"
"The Lion and the Unicorn"
"The Walrus and the Carpenter" (The Walrus and the Carpenter
(full poem))
"Humpty Dumpty"

The Walrus and the Carpenter

"In Winter when the fields are white..."

"Haddocks' Eyes" / The Aged Aged Man / Ways and Means / A-sitting On a Gate, the song is A-sitting On a
Gate, but its other names and callings are placed above.
"To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said..."
White Queen's riddle
"A boat beneath a sunny sky" is the first line of a titleless acrostic poem at the end of the bookthe beginning
letters of each line, when put together, spell Alice Pleasance Liddell.

The Wasp in a wig

Lewis Carroll decided to suppress a scene involving what was described as "a wasp in a wig" (possibly a play on the
commonplace expression "bee in the bonnet"). It has been suggested in a biography by Carroll's nephew, Stuart
Dodgson Collingwood, that one of the reasons for this suppression was due to the suggestion of his illustrator, John
Tenniel. In a letter to Carroll, dated 1 June 1870, Tenniel wrote:
...I am bound to say that the 'wasp' chapter doesn't interest me in the least, and I cant see my way to a picture.
If you want to shorten the book, I cant help thinking with all submission that there is your opportunity.[8]
For many years no one had any idea what this missing section was or whether it had survived. In 1974, a document
purporting to be the galley proofs of the missing section was sold at Sotheby's; the catalogue description read, in
part, that "The proofs were bought at the sale of the author's ... personal effects ... Oxford, 1898...". The bid was won
by John Fleming, a Manhattan book dealer. The winning bid was 1,700. The contents were subsequently published
in Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition, and is also available as a hardback book The Wasp
in a Wig: A Suppressed Episode ....[9]

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The rediscovered section describes Alice's encounter with a wasp wearing a yellow wig, and includes a full
previously unpublished poem. If included in the book, it would have followed, or been included at the end of,
chapter 8 the chapter featuring the encounter with the White Knight. The discovery is generally accepted as
genuine, though some doubting voices have been raised. The proofs have yet to receive any physical examination to
establish age and authenticity.[10]

Main characters

Alice

Red Queen

Bandersnatch

The Sheep

Haigha (March Hare)

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Hatta (The Hatter)

The Walrus and the Carpenter

Humpty Dumpty

The Lion and the Unicorn

The Jabberwock

White King

Jubjub Bird

White Knight

Red King

White Queen

For all other characters see: List of minor characters in Through the Looking Glass

Adaptations
The book has been adapted several times, in combination with Alice in
Wonderland and as a stand alone film or television special.

Stand alone versions

The adaptations include live and TV musicals, live action and animated
versions. One of the earliest adaptations was a silent movie directed by
Walter Lang, Alice Through a Looking Glass, in 1928.[11]
A dramatized version directed by Douglas Cleverdon and starring Jane
Asher was recorded in the late-1950s by Argo Records, with actors
Tony Church, Norman Shelley and Carleton Hobbs, and Margaretta
Scott as the narrator.[12]
Musical versions include the 1966 TV musical with songs by Moose
Charlap, and Judi Rolin in the role of Alice,[13] [14] a Christmas 2007
multimedia stage adaptation at The Tobacco Factory directed and
conceived by Andy Burden, written by Hattie Naylor, music and lyrics
by Paul Dodgson and a 2008 opera Through the Looking Glass by
Alan John.

The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel

for Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass,
including the poem "Jabberwocky".

Television versions include the 1974 BBC TV movie, Alice Through the Looking Glass, with Sarah Sutton playing
Alice,[15] a 1982 38-minute Soviet cutout-animated film made by Kievnauchfilm studio and directed by Yefrem
Pruzhanskiy,[16] an animated TV movie in 1987, with Janet Waldo as the voice of Alice (Mr. T was the voice of the
Jabberwock)[17] and the 1998 Channel 4 TV movie, with Kate Beckinsale playing the role of Alice. This production
restored the lost "Wasp in a Wig" episode.[18]
In March 2011, Japanese companies Toei and Banpresto announced that a collaborative animation project based on
Through the Looking-Glass tenatively titled Kys Giga ()[19] was in production.

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With Alice in Wonderland

Adaptations combined with Alice in Wonderland include the 1933 live-action movie Alice in Wonderland, starring a
huge all-star cast and Charlotte Henry in the role of Alice. It featured most of the elements from Through the
Looking Glass as well, including W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, and a Leon Schlesinger Productions animated
version of The Walrus and the Carpenter.[20] The 1951 animated Disney movie Alice in Wonderland also featured
several elements from Through the Looking-Glass, including the poems "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the
Carpenter".[21] Another adaptation, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was produced by Joseph Shaftel Productions
(distributed by Fox-Rank productions) in 1972, and is felt by many to be the most faithful adaptation to the original
novel, with the exception of the omitted scene with the Cheshire Cat (Roy Kinnear) replaced by Tweedledum and
Tweedledee (in a scene which remains faithful to their respective scene from Alice Through the Looking Glass).
Fiona Fullerton played Alice, Michael Crawford played the White Rabbit, Peter Sellers played the March Hare, and
Dudley Moore played the Dormouse.[22] The 2010 movie Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton contains elements of
both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.[23]
Combined stage productions include the 1980 version, produced and written by Elizabeth Swados, Alice in Concert
(aka Alice at the Palace), performed on a bare stage. Meryl Streep played the role of Alice, with additional
supporting cast by Mark Linn-Baker and Betty Aberlin. In 2007, Chicago-based Lookingglass Theater Company
debuted an acrobatic interpretation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass with
Lookingglass Alice.[24] Lookingglass Alice was performed in New York City, Philadelphia and is currently in an
open-ended run in Chicago.[25] There is also a version of the show touring in the United States.
The 1985 two-part TV musical Alice in Wonderland, produced by Irwin Allen, covered both books; Alice was
played by Natalie Gregory. In this adaptation, the Jabberwock materialises into reality after Alice reads
Jabberwocky, and pursues her through the second half of the musical.[26] The 1999 made-for-TV Hallmark/NBC
film Alice in Wonderland, with Tina Majorino as Alice, merged elements from Through the Looking Glass including
the talking flowers, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, The Walrus and the Carpenter, and the Chess theme including the
snoring Red King and White Knight.[27] The 2009 Syfy TV mini-series Alice contains elements from Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.[28]

Other
The 1977 film Jabberwocky expands the story of the poem "Jabberwocky".[29] The 1936 Mickey Mouse short film
"Thru the Mirror" has Mickey travel through his mirror and into a bizarre world. The 1959 film Donald in
Mathmagic Land includes a segment with Donald Duck dressed as Alice meeting the Red Queen on a chessboard.

Notes
[1] In Chapter 7, "A Mad Tea-Party", Alice reveals that the date is "the fourth" and that the month is "May."
[2] In the first chapter, Alice speaks of the snow outside and the "bonfire" that "the boys" are building for a celebration "to-morrow", a clear
reference to the traditional bonfires on Guy Fawkes Night, 5 November; in the fifth chapter, she affirms that her age is "seven and a half
exactly."
[3] See Lewis Carroll and chess (http:/ / lewiscarrollsociety. org. uk/ pages/ lewiscarroll/ randrchess. htm) on the Lewis Carroll Society Website
[4] See their web-site Lewis CARROLL's chess game (http:/ / www. echecs-histoire-litterature. com/ index_english. html) dedicated to the
problem and its possible meaning
[5] Moll, Arne (13 July 2008). "Lewis Carrolls chess problem" (http:/ / www. chessvibes. com/ columns/ lewis-carrolls-chess-problem/ ). .
Retrieved 12 September 2009.
[6] See: Leach, Karoline In the Shadow of the Dreamchild, London 1999, The Unreal Alice
[7] http:/ / www. nlc-bnc. ca/ obj/ s4/ f2/ dsk2/ tape15/ PQDD_0006/ NQ34258. pdf
[8] Gardner, Martin (2000). The Annotated Alice. W. W. Norton & Company. p.283. ISBN0393048470.
[9] (Clarkson Potter, MacMillan & Co.; 1977)
[10] see lengthy discussion about the 'absence' of investigation on the Lewis Carroll Discussion List (http:/ / groups. yahoo. com/ group/
lewiscarroll/ )
[11] Alice Through a Looking Glass (1928) (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0018640/ ) at the Internet Movie Database

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