I think the "Scrooge" series of records from 1916 by William Sterling Battis are a lot of fun, but, as I mentioned last time, I do have one beef!
It's nothing new, just that Scrooge keeps saying how the visits from the spirits were dreams!
Within the context of this particular adaptation, I can understand Scrooge thinking that the visit from Marley's Ghost was a dream when he wakes up during the night. But after the Ghost of Christmas Past leaves, he thinks that was a dream too.
So, he would have had to been dreaming that Marley's Ghost visited him, then within that dream he would have dreamed that he woke up, then had a dream within that dream that the Ghost of Christmas Past appeared. And so on...
Makes your head spin after a while!
Of course, Bransby Williams goes as far as to name the parts of his monologue as "Before the Dream," "The Dream" and "After the Dream," so there's no mistaking his take on it!
Was that a thing then? That it was all a dream or series of dreams?
And if it were a dream, it wouldn't be "A Ghost Story of Christmas," would it?
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