Synopsis
Thy Brother's Wife
$7.99
Published by Cyberpress
3 Male 2 Female
This award-winning play is written in the idiom of 1825 Quaker Nantucket and details the wedding day of Haddie Starbuck 24, a woman
twice widowed from whalers
It is to the older brother of her two previous husbands that she now prepares to marry
Then two ships arrive - in addition to whale oil, they carry Haddie's two lost husbands, long since given up for dead
The perplexities posed by their return prompt Haddie to examine her role as a woman and a thinker in this liberated Society of Friends
Can she find her own voice in the insular world of Quaker Nantucket?
Or must she leave to find her own place in the world?
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