Parks, Suzan-Lori. The Red Letter Plays.

This book contains two plays, In The Blood and Fucking A, both of which are interpretations/spin offs of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. In both plays, the character Hester commits filicide, though in Hawthorne's novel, Hester does nothing to harm her child.

Annotation
Parks, Suzan-Lori. The Red Letter Plays: In The Blood and Fucking A. New York: Theatre Communications Group, Inc. 2001. Print.

Quotes and Notes
The Scarlet Letter "A = Adultery" In The Blood "A = Adultery (kind of...Hester has multiple children by multiple fathers but, because of her class status and homelessness, she is often forced to sleep with different people for money, protection, or resources of some kind; she is sexually exploited by several people in the play; her adultery is seen as one that is not entirely her decision but rather a combination of the forces around her; “A” is also the only letter of the alphabet which she can identify or write)" "Hester kills her son, Jabber, after he asks the meaning of the word “slut” and then begins to imply that Hester is a slut. Hester is homeless and with her children every day, struggling to feed and clothe them. She clubs him to death." Fucking A "A = Abortionist (Hester’s occupation)" "Hester kills her son, Monster, after he begs her to let him die quickly and mercifully (versus the slow torture that awaits him from the Hunters), which she ultimately does. Hester has only recently realized that Monster is her son by their matching bite marks (she gave one to him and one to herself when they were taking him away from her so she would be able to compare them when she found him again). Monster is initially sent to prison for stealing from the rich woman he works for (any further allusions to his crimes are vague but don’t seem hyper violent). Hester slices Monster’s throat while cradling his head in her lap."