Moby Dick: A Play for Radio (Front)
This dramatic version of Moby Dick Melville's novel which has claims to be considered among the world's prose masterpieces was commissioned by the B.B.C., and presented on the air, with Sir Ralph Richardson as Ahab, in January 1947. To compress this vast novel into two and a quarter hours has involved drastic cutting. In particular those famous digressions about the history and technicalities of whaling, which to the enthusiastic lover of the novel are a great part of its fascination, have had to go. There has, however, been no need to diminish the great theme of Ahab's fanatical thirst for revenge, and his 'fiery hunt' of the white whale round two-thirds of the globe. By isolating in this version that great symbolic tragedy of a man's 'quenchless feud', Henry Reed has made an interesting contribution to radio drama, and has brought to it the insight and skill which have made him known as a poet.
by the author of
A Map of Verona
Moby Dick: A Play for Radio (Front)
This dramatic version of Moby Dick Melville's novel which has claims to be considered among the world's prose masterpieces was commissioned by the B.B.C., and presented on the air, with Sir Ralph Richardson as Ahab, in January 1947. To compress this vast novel into two and a quarter hours has involved drastic cutting. In particular those famous digressions about the history and technicalities of whaling, which to the enthusiastic lover of the novel are a great part of its fascination, have had to go. There has, however, been no need to diminish the great theme of Ahab's fanatical thirst for revenge, and his 'fiery hunt' of the white whale round two-thirds of the globe. By isolating in this version that great symbolic tragedy of a man's 'quenchless feud', Henry Reed has made an interesting contribution to radio drama, and has brought to it the insight and skill which have made him known as a poet.
by the author of
A Map of Verona