In a poem by this author, the speaker says, “You’ll walk to no purpose / in Hawthorne’s Salem.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of a play that adapts Hawthorne’s stories “Endecott and the Red Cross” and “My Kinsman, Major Molineux.” This author wrote a poem about a “monument [that] sticks like a fishbone / in the city's throat” set at the “old South Boston Aquarium.”
ANSWER: Robert Lowell [or Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV] (The lead-in is from “Hawthorne” and the second poem is “For the Union Dead.”)
[10e] An author from this country adapted Hawthorne’s story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” into a play that Daniel Catán, a composer from this country, used for an opera. This country was home to the author of Aura, Carlos Fuentes.
ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States or Estados Unidos Mexicanos]
[10h] This author, who wrote about “La Negrita” in an adaptations of The Scarlet Letter titled In the Blood, also adapted Hawthorne in her play Fucking A.
ANSWER: Suzan-Lori Parks
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