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. Enge*l -- 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).