Bearing Witness: The Two Worlds of The Amen Corner
When James Baldwin wrote The Amen Corner, in the summer of 1953, he was only 29 years old and just …
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The Thief of Time (Peter Pan & Wendy)
Much like Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Lewis Carroll’s Alice, and the Creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, J.M. Barrie’s Peter …
The Lost Shakespeare Play (Timon of Athens)
There is no record of Timon of Athens being performed—in fact, there’s no mention of the play whatsoever, from any …
Medieval à la Mode (Everybody)
Most undergraduate surveys pay scant respect to the medieval drama. Sure, you will get a sprinkling of Aristotle and a …
Tragedy and Democracy (The Oresteia)
The stories a truly democratic society tells are tragic ones. They ask questions and offer answers on success and failure, …
Bildungswoman (Vanity Fair)
William Makepeace Thackeray, one of the fathers of modern prose, possessed a wickedly ironic, savagely unsentimental tone that marks him …
The Theater of History (Richard III)
Ever since it first appeared onstage, Richard III has remained among Shakespeare’s most widely produced and popular plays, and its …
Apocalypse Now (The Sternheim Trilogy)
Ever since his own time, no one has known quite what to make of Carl Sternheim or his work. Like …
Priestley’s Wide Gap of Time (An Inspector Calls)
Lead us from hence, where we may leisurely Each one demand an answer to his part Performed in this wide …
Divine Comedy (The Comedy of Errors)
One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, The Comedy of Errors is also two plays in one. The action begins with a …
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