phiz

Theirs is a bouncy, jaunty take on Austen, with a 10-member cast taking on an assortment of roles that are always clearly defined, sometimes as graphically as caricatures by the Dickens illustrator Phiz.

Accordingly, some most ludicrous caricatures might have been taken, had Cruikshank or Phiz been of the party instead of myself.

The old horse-trough, as depicted by “Phiz” in the original illustrated title-page of the book, has long since given place to local alteration and improvement; but “hereabouts it stood.”

My Phiz bids me say that mice-catching is long, weary, anxious work at the best, and she is quite certain she would die if compelled to make a living at it.

Sir John Falstaff's lowlife cronies have the spiky angularity of a Phiz illustration to a Dickens novel.