Both have as their source material Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and both feature lead characters named Hester. And they are both at New York City’s Signature Theatre, intended to ...

All of these events are highly reminiscent of the punishment inflicted upon Hester Prynne in Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” That novel was first published almost two centuries ago ...

But even figuratively, that just isn’t how the scarlet letter works. In the book, Hester is disturbed by her illegitimate daughter’s preoccupation with the physical letter, and the community ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes ...

Hester Prynne is a tall ... accomplished women such as Peabody and Margaret Fuller; he was writing The Scarlet Letter directly after the first women's rights convention in New York in 1848.

The method of society has been exemplified by the affixing of the scarlet letter on Hester's bosom. This is her punishment, the heaviest that man can afflict upon her. But, like all legal ...

But Hester only exasperates the anger of the ... and Calonge makes the Pearl puppet precocious and occasionally charming. “The Scarlet Letter” looks and feels entirely at home on stage in ...

Hester: Pearl, who is your heavenly father ... And I felt like "The Scarlet Letter" is a really good story with which to examine that. Hawthorne himself wrote the novel at least partially out ...

“I’m wearing the scarlet letter after the week that I just had ... Of course, that’s not why Hester Prynne wore the brand in the book. So, during Wednesday night’s “A Closer Look ...

the author puts a fresh spin on a question scholars have wondered about since Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote his iconic novel "The Scarlet Letter" in 1850: Who was Hester Prynne? Published by St ...