The Scarlet Letter & A Scarlet Stigma: Romance and The Adapted Play (Illustrated Edition)
A Puritan Tale of Sin, Stigma, and Stage AdaptationBy Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Edgar Smith
Length15h 28m
About this audiobook
This illustrated pairing brings a foundational American romance into illuminating conversation with its theatrical afterlife. Set within Puritan New England, the volume explores sin, public shame, secrecy, gendered judgment, moral authority, and the difficult claims of conscience. The novel's densely symbolic prose, historical atmosphere, and psychological ambiguity stand beside an adapted play that recasts its conflict through dialogue, scene, gesture, and public spectacle. Together, the works reveal how a narrative of stigma can change when transferred from the inwardness of romance to the immediacy of performance. Nathaniel Hawthorne's work belongs to the nineteenth-century American romance tradition, where inherited history and allegorical suggestiveness become means of examining the nation's moral imagination. James Edgar Smith's adaptation participates in the long cultural practice of remaking canonical fiction for the stage, selecting and reshaping narrative materials for a different audience and medium. Their juxtaposition foregrounds not simply two texts but two modes of interpretation: one meditative and narratorial, the other dramatic and collective. The illustrations further invite readers to consider how visual representation mediates character, setting, and emblematic meaning. Ideal for students, teachers, and general readers, this edition offers an unusually rich opportunity to study adaptation alongside its source. It rewards attention to literary form, performance, visual culture, and the enduring social politics of judgment, inviting productive dialogue between page, stage, and image.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length15 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 26, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Prince & the Pauper + A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Annotated)
2The Scarlet Letter & A Scarlet Stigma: Romance and The Adapted Play (Illustrated Edition)
3Introduction
4Biographical sketch by George Parsons Lathrop
5I.
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6II.
7III.
8IV.
9V.
10Novel
11The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850)
12THE CUSTOM-HOUSE INTRODUCTORY TO “THE SCARLET LETTER”
13I. THE PRISON DOOR
14II. THE MARKETPLACE
15III. THE RECOGNITION
16IV. THE INTERVIEW
17V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
18VI. PEARL
19VII. THE GOVERNOR’S HALL
20VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
21IX. THE LEECH
22X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
23XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
24XII. THE MINISTER’S VIGIL
25XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
26XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
27XV. HESTER AND PEARL
28XVI. A FOREST WALK
29XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
30XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
31XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
32XX. THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
33XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
34XXII. THE PROCESSION
35XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
36XXIV. CONCLUSION
37Adaptation of The Scarlet Letter:
38A Scarlet Stigma - A Play in Four Acts (1899)
39PERSONS REPRESENTED
40THE SCARLET STIGMA
41Act I.
42Scene I.
43Scene II.
44Scene III.
45Act II.
46Scene I.
47Scene II.
48Scene III.
49Act III.
50Scene I.
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