Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Christmas Plays written by Betty Smith and 9 other popular authors. Connections: Good King Wenceslas (carol) / traditional -- Christmas bells (poem) / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The scrooge test (humor) from You know you're a scrooge when ... / by Scott Matthews and Barbara Alpert -- A Christmas wish (novel extract) from A tree grows in Brooklyn / by Betty Smith -- The cobbler and the banker (fable) / by Jean de la Fontaine -- The unrepentant rich man (reader's theater) Luke 16:19-31 / adapted by Diane B. Engel -- Scrooge, ghosts, Tiny Tim and Patrick Stewart (theater review) / by Mel Gussow -- A one-man version of A Christmas carol (interview extract) / with Patrick Stewart -- Christmas was a time of plenty (personal memoir) / by Nicholasa Mohr -- Christmas Eve (poem) / by Cathy Song -- Charles Dickens (biographical sketch).