WHAT THE DICKENS?(staging A Christmas Carol)
American Theatre, December, 2000 by Weeks, Jerome
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TURNING MARLEY'S FACE INTO A DOORKNOB IS JUST PROBLEM NUMBER ONE FOR CAROL ADAPTORS
SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH Jacob Marley is given one of the best-known kiss-offs in English literature: "Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it.... Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail."
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The obituary declarations that open Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol announce what has become a Western institution, part of the fabric ...
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