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Title: Billy Budd by Robert Chapman, Lo Lus O. Coxe ISBN: 0-8090-1204-9 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 June, 1962 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: say it, don't spray it
Comment: Show, don't tell. That's what I learned in my undergraduate fiction writing class. And I'm sure that Melville learned it, too. Coxe and Chapman weren't as attentive, I'm afraid.

The play spells out the "clunky"--read: metaphysical--conflicts in the plot, and even dramatizes secret meeting between Billy and Vere. The main thrust of the story is that we don't get to see that! The only thing it moved was my bowels. I wonder why it hasn't been performed in 30 years...

For and excellent dramatic adaptation, see Britten's opera. It at least preserves the mystery and the psychology of Melville's masterpiece.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterpiece of Adaptation
Comment: Rarely does the world of fiction translate to theatre as cleanly and powerfully as this. Poet Louis Coxe and Robert Chapman have done a masterful job of bringing Herman Melville's somewhat clunky morality tale to life in this play. A must read for anyone who enjoys Melville or good, moving theatre.

Rating: 1
Summary: This book was a mistake!
Comment: I read this book as a summer assignment for my English Honors class. I could not believe how terrible it was! I could not even follow it when I read it out loud. The only thing that got me through it was Cliffs Notes. Sure this book has a lot of good morals (that I only discovered through Cliffs Notes) but overall, it was wretched!