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Thy Brother's Wife: A Historical Romance in Two Acts

Thy Brother's Wife: A Historical Romance in Two Acts

          
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Thy Brother's Wife opens in Nantucket, MA in 1825 on the wedding day of Haddie Elizabeth Starbuck, a young Quaker woman who, at 24, has already been twice widowed from Nantucket whalers. Both of her husbands came from the prominent Starbuck family. It is to the older brother of her two former husbands that she now prepares herself for marriage. During the wedding preparations a ship arrives and in addition to a belly full of whale oil, it carries Haddie's two lost loves, long since given up for dead by Haddie and the Quaker community. The perplexities posed by their return prompt Haddie to examine her role as a woman and a thinker in this liberated Society of Friends. And it prompts the brothers three to devise a plan whereby they could share the benefits of Haddie's companionship as a wife and mate on a rotating basis, for her benefit, of course. This play examines the moral and ethical dilemmas posed by the brothers' arrival and explores the relationship between the Quaker disavowal of violence against other human beings for any reason and their wholesale slaughter of whales solely for economic gain. Against this backdrop of moral and ethical complications, Haddie finds her own voice in the insular world of Quaker Nantucket and makes a decision to find her own place in the world as well.
About the Author: David W. Christner was born in Sweetwater, TN and raised in rural Oklahoma. He attended high school in Mountain View, a small farming community situated between the Washita River and the Wichita Mountains in the southwestern part of the state. As a Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Navy, Christner served three years at sea fighting the Vietnam War and two years ashore in Norfolk, VA. After completing his graduate education at OU, Christner settled in southern Rhode Island and for twenty years worked as a technical writer, editor and multimedia training developer for a variety of defense contractors and hi-tech multinational corporations during the day and wrote plays and novels at night. His stage plays The Wall, Bui-Doi: The Dust of Life, The Walk, Red Hot Mamas, The Babe, the Bard and the Baron, The Bitch of Baily's Beach, Ezra and Evil, What About Mimi?, and This Blood's For You have been finalists or winners in national/international playwriting competitions. Speculations on the cosmos, sex, war, religion, injustice, environmental exploitation, aging, women's issues, the homeless, the colonial slave trade and capital punishment have formed the thematic content of the plays and novels he has written so far. His plays have been produced in the U.S. Australia, Japan, Belgium, India, Ghana, Singapore and Canada. Red Hot Mamas has been translated into Russian and Italian for professional productions in those countries. Christner is theater critic for the Newport Mercury in Newport, RI. Thy Brother's Wife is a past finalist in the Hudson River Classics New Play Competition.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781516893706
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 112
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Historical Romance in Two Acts
  • Width: 127 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1516893700
  • Publisher Date: 22 Aug 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Weight: 118 gr


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