Dickens and Christmas
The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Presents “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens–a Theatre Review
Kareem Bandealy as Jacob Marley and Larry Yando as Ebenezer Scrooge in Goodman Theatre’s A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Tom Creamer. Photo: Liz Lauren This review is contributed by Mads Golding, a playwright, writer, and independent scholar who focuses on Charles Dickens...
From Page to Screen: Tracing Decades of “A Christmas Carol” Adaptations
This post is contributed by Melisa Kaya, a graduate with honors in English and Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s University, Canada. As a writer, editor, and researcher, her primary research examines the intersection of literature and science, exploring their mutual influence. Additionally, Melisa engages in...
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff—TV Christmas Special Review
This post is contributed by Mads Golding. Mads is a playwright and writer currently pursuing an MA in English literature at Loyola University, Chicago. Her research interests include Dickens, Shakespeare, and theater. Mads currently serves as a member of the communications committee for The Dickens...
“In Defense of Scrooge:” A Brief History
Contributed by Spencer Dodd, PhD Student, Louisiana State University. In early December, a screenshot of a fake London Times article by “Dickie Canine” circulated on social media for a few days. The “article” in question featured an image of Jim Carrey as Scrooge clinging to...
CFP: Write for The Dickens Society Blog!
The Dickens Society Blog is under new editorship! Dr Katie Bell and Michelle Crowther (not pictured in the illustration above) are looking for engaging submissions from scholars at all career stages on any aspect of Dickensian research. We particularly welcome posts from researchers new to...
“Is there no dinner theatre?!”: Little Dickens and a Dickensian Christmas
This post has been contributed by Catherine Quirk (@quirk_catherine), McGill University. Read her previous posts here, here, and here. In December 2019, theatre-goers at Montréal’s Centaur Theatre found themselves exposed to a new kind of Dickensian Christmas. From 19 November to 21 December, “Master Marionette...
Crossing the Borders: Windows and Thresholds in Dickens’s Christmas Stories of the 1840s
This post has been contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read Renata’s previous posts here and here. This post is in two parts. Find the second part here. Dickens in the Christmas stories of the 1840s uses specific frame images, many of...
If He Could Turn Back Time: Scrooge’s Missing Hours in A Christmas Carol
Contributed by Christian Sidney Dickinson, Baptist College of Florida At the end of the First Stave of Charles Dickens’s Christmas classic, A Christmas Carol (1843), a disturbed Scrooge, after having conversed with the ghost of his long-departed (we know better than to say ‘dear’) business...
“Revising” Dickens: The Author as Scrooge in Oak Park Festival’s A Dickens Carol
Contributed by Lydia Craig, Loyola University Chicago A recent adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, entitled A Dickens Carol and directed by Kevin Theis, just experienced its second run at Oak Park Festival Theatre in Chicago, IL in December 2018. Playwright...
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