A Whale of a Twice-Told Tale.(A Tanglewood Tale)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
American Theatre, September, 2001 by Sampson, Benjamin W.
LENOX, MASS.: So, yes, two of the greatest innovators of the 19th-century American novel did meet during a thunderstorm. Taking shelter on a dark and stormy day in the Berkshires, 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne (played by James Goodwin Rice, in photo) and Herman Melville became fast friends, as chronicled in Juliane and Stephen Glatz's new play about the literary pair, A Tanglewood Tale (premiering Sept.
7-Oct. 21 at Shakespeare and Company). They took to each other despite having disparate personalities: Tale's ...
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