Shattered Globe Theatre's The Whaleship Essex is bestilled, if not dead, in the water.
by Tony Adler
American literature's most annoying classic was inspired by real-life events. Herman Melville based his epically digressive Moby-Dick on an 1820 incident in which a monster whale turned on a Nantucket whaling ship, the Essex, and rammed it—twice!—causing it to sink into the Pacific Ocean.…[ Read more ]