Oh look, another critic who part-times as a necromancer!

After communing with the departed spirit of Benjamin Britten, critic Frank Kuznik wrote:

Britten was certainly no stranger to the vicissitudes of homosexuality – in fact, the part of Captain Vere was originally written for his partner, Peter Pears. But sex is not what Britten found interesting about Melville’s eponymous novel, which is primarily a parable of good and evil. Instead, he was intrigued by the moral dilemma that Vere faces after Billy strikes Claggart and accidentally kills him.