CHARLES DICKENS A Christmas Carol1998

**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).