Editing Metacomet (section)

==Representations==
* [[Mary Rowlandson]], who was taken captive during a raid on [[Lancaster, Massachusetts]], later wrote a [[A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson|memoir]] about her [[captivity narrative|captivity]], and described meeting with Metacom while she was held by his followers.
* [[Washington Irving]] relates a romanticized but sympathetic version of Metacom's life in the 1820 sketch "Philip of Pokanoket," published in his collected stories, ''[[The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.]]'' (1820).
* Another notable representation of Metacomet is in [[John Augustus Stone]]'s tragedy play, [[Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags|Metamora; or, the Last of the Wampanoags]] (1829). The play was very popular during the 1830s and 1840s with significance during this time given the greater political context of [[Andrew Jackson|Andrew Jackson's]] [[Indian Removal Act]]. [[Edwin Forrest]] played the role of Metacomet. In real life, King Philip is not thought to have spoken during his death. However, this play gave King Philip the last word before his death.<ref name="lepore" />
* In his short story "[[The Devil and Daniel Webster]]" (1937), [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] portrays Metacom as a villain to the colonists, and as being killed by a blow to the head (he was shot in the heart). Webster is portrayed as respecting Metacom as one of those who "formed American history." Metacomet, together with other famous historical villains, is a juror in the "trial of the damned". When convinced that his damnation resulted in his loss of admiration for the natural world, he ultimately takes Webster's side against the Devil. In the [[The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941 film)|film]] he is replaced by Asa, the [[The Black Monk|Black Monk]].
* Metacom is featured in the 1995 film ''[[The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)|The Scarlet Letter]]'' as the Wampanoags' new chief after his father's death.
* David Kerr Chivers' ''Metacomet's War'' (2008) is an historical novel about King Philip's War.
* [[Narragansett people|Narragansett]] journalist [[John Christian Hopkins]]'s novel, ''Carlomagno,'' is a historical novel that imagines Metacom's son becoming a pirate after having been sold into slavery in the West Indies.
* The novel ''My Father's Kingdom'' (2017) by James W. George focuses on the events leading to King Philip's War.
*There is a short section about Metacomet in the [[prologue]] of [[Tommy Orange]]'s novel ''[[There There (novel)|There There]]'' (2018).