Dramatist David Edgar was struck by the Dickensian sound of names such as Tinder and Tibshelf in adaptation of classic story
Charles Dickens’s extraordinary invention of names is among the great delights of his tales. Long after Scrooge became a synonym for a miser, a forthcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) will introduce a host of new Dickensian names for 21st-century audiences, including a Herr Uber, a Mrs Snapchat and a Mr Tinder.
Dickens found inspiration for many of his characters in real life. Cold-hearted businessman Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghost of his deceased partner, Jacob Marley, have been linked to people who lived or worked near his first London home.
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