Editing The Devil and Daniel Webster (section)

=== Stage ===
Benét adapted his story as a play, ''The Devil and Daniel Webster: A Play in One Act'' (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1938), and also as a folk opera, ''The Devil and Daniel Webster: An Opera in One Act'' (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939), music by [[Douglas Moore]] (Moore and Benét had earlier collaborated on an operetta, ''The Headless Horseman'' [1937], based on [[Washington Irving]]'s short story "[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]" [1820]).

[[Archibald MacLeish]], a friend and associate of Benét's in the 1930s and until his death in 1943, also adapted the story as a play: ''Scratch'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971). On Broadway very briefly, ''Scratch'' starred Will Geer in the title role and Patrick Magee as Webster. Originally conceived as a musical collaboration with Bob Dylan, the collaboration fell apart due to creative differences between Dylan and MacLeish. The show opened at Broadway's St. James Theater on May 6, 1971, and closed two days later.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Langer |first1=Adam |title=Bob Dylan's First Musical Had a Devil of a Time |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/theater/bob-dylan-scratch-broadway-macleish.html |access-date=11 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=2 November 2020}}</ref>