Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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Charles Dickens’s classic 1843 holiday novella, A Christmas Carol, has been adapted into a new BBC television drama. The three-part fantasy miniseries is directed by Nick Murphy, and stars Joe Alwyn as Bob Cratchit, Jason Flemyng as the Ghost of Christmas Future, Stephen Graham as Jacob Marley, Guy Pearce as Ebenezer Scrooge, Charlotte Riley as Lottie (the Ghost of Christmas Present), and Andy Serkis as the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Tags: Fiction | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | 1843 | trailer | television series | television adaptation | novella | BBC | 2019 -
The Man Who Invented Christmas (Crown, 2008), a biography by Les Standiford focusing on the events in 1843 that inspired Charles Dickens to write A Christmas Carol, has been adapted into a feature film. Directed by Bharat Nalluri, the film stars Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, and Dan Stevens.
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Crown | 2008 | Les Standiford | biography | biopic | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | movie trailer | film adaptation | 2017 | 1843 -
Dan Stevens, who stars as Charles Dickens in The Man Who Invented Christmas, talks about researching Dickens’s life and learning more about his writing process for A Christmas Carol. Directed by Bharat Nalluri and costarring Christopher Plummer and Jonathan Pryce, the film is based on Les Standiford’s 2008 Dickens biography of the same name.
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Charles Dickens | The Man Who Invented Christmas | A Christmas Carol | 2017 | Les Standiford | Crown | 2008 | biopic | film adaptation
