{"product_id":"the-old-glory-endecott-and-the-red-cross-my-kinsman-major-molineux-and-benito-cereno-paperback","title":"The Old Glory: Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; And Benito Cereno - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Lowell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJonathan Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eRobert Brustein\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of Five Obies, now back in print after fifteen years, a stage adaptation of classic stories by Hawthorne and Melville\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the three plays in \u003ci\u003eThe Old Glory--Endecott and the Red Cross\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMy Kinsman, Major Molineux\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eBenito Cereno\u003c\/i\u003e--the most powerful figure in postwar American poetry confronts the most haunting American fiction writers of the nineteenth century. The result is a mythical, nightmare history of three centuries in America. In Endecott and the Red Cross, Hawthorne's Puritan governor, horrified by his colony's high living, declares, \"Everything in America will be Bible, blood and iron. \/ England will no longer exist.\" The other two plays, based on Hawthorne's \u003ci\u003eMy Kinsman, Major Molineux\u003c\/i\u003e and Melville's \u003ci\u003eBenito Cereno\u003c\/i\u003e, take up the themes of parricide and independence: one in Boston on the eve of the Revolutionary War, the other on a merchant ship in the Caribbean in the early nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plays were first performed in 1964, when the poet Randall Jarrell wrote: \"I have never seen a better American play than \u003ci\u003eBenito Cereno\u003c\/i\u003e, the major play in Robert Lowell's \u003ci\u003eThe Old Glory\u003c\/i\u003e . . . The play is a masterpiece of imaginative knowledge.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Lowell\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-77) was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including\u003ci\u003e Day by Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Dolphin\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e. FSG also published his \u003ci\u003eCollected Prose\u003c\/i\u003e in 1987.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.66 x 4.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 11, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42139073216592,"sku":"9780374527044","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/S1JNN2ZmdFRSODFMaCtqNTZvVDc2QT09.webp?v=1774241495","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-old-glory-endecott-and-the-red-cross-my-kinsman-major-molineux-and-benito-cereno-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}