Playwright R.L. Lane has set himself a considerable task in adapting "Bartleby the Scrivener," Herman Melville's novella about a morose young copyist whose impenetrable melancholy proves the undoing ...

As the Occupy Wall Street protest blossoms across America, they are no doubt being watched over by the country’s patron saint of civil disobedience. Bartleby, the hero of Bartleby the Scrivener: A ...

We all have experience with problem employees. Some of us have even been one. But few of us pose as big a problem as a copy clerk named Bartleby did to his colleagues. You likely haven’t encountered ...

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The titular copier in Herman Melville’s short story is a polite but obstinate man. Asked to perform a task, Bartleby considerately replies, “I’d prefer not to.” His boss can’t fathom this eccentric ...

There have been at least five film versions of Herman Melville's novella Bartleby the Scrivener, which is surprising considering how undramatic the plot is. R.L. Lane's stage adaptation, which ...