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A Christmas Carol

In Our Time: Culture

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Bar Humbug - A Review

Dickens has done so much of the work for tho those film makers. It is intensely visual. But the characters too, are so strongly marked. Not necessarily rich and complex, but they have their catch phrases. Bar humbug has lifted itself out of the text reallyand become a kind of shorthand for a certain wayo of thinking. You can owi smel how it worked in popular theatre as i think they ad did more end but bam, bu god bless us.

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