We may realize its value, in the present case, by imagining the book with the scarlet letter omitted. It is not practically essential to the plot. But the scarlet letter uplifts the theme from the ...

These days, we tend to think about The Scarlet Letter in relation to high school students struggling with their English papers, but we didn’t always see the book that way. When Nathaniel ...

a stage adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” from 1850 at Two River Theater. Hewing closely to Hawthorne’s plot but winnowing the excess enough to achieve a coherent 90 ...