Playwright Adi Teodoru hopes that seeing her play, Melville & Hawthorne, just might make you want to dig up a copy of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. If you do, one of the first things you might notice is that Melville dedicated his book to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Melville met the author...
If you do, one of the first things you might notice is that Melville dedicated his book to Nathaniel Hawthorne . Melville met the author ofin 1850, and the two spent more than a year living just a mile from each other in the Berkshires. The time the two spent together deeply affected Melville as he developedMoby Dick
Teodoru’s play is rooted in fact, so much so that she says her favorite part of the play may be “people coming out of it and researching everything that happens in it and realizing that it’s, I would say, 99% true.”, a standard in high school English classes across the country that most everyone has either read or at least knows from “the CliffsNotes version so that we can get through the test,” jokes Teodoru.
“It was mind-boggling to me the parallels between the time Melville was living in and what we’re living through now,” says Teodoru. “In 1851 to 1852, this nation was essentially drawing the lines of the two-party system and people were choosing sides. This was really the first time the nation decided there are two sides to our views and those two sides have continued to combat each other throughout our history and, of course, we still do that today.
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