The Corn is Green
Written for a Summer 2007 production of The Corn is Green, by Emlyn Williams, at Williamstown. The production, directed by …
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History and Comedy
Written in the summer of 2007 for a production of The Front Page at Williamstown Theatre Festival. It was eventually …
Hamlet Karaoke, or the Ghost in the Machine
Written in the spring of 2007 for Gordon Rogoff’s Criticism seminar. I remember being particularly proud of this piece …
Wedekind’s Weltanschauung
Written in the spring of 2007 for a production of Lulu, directed by Mark Lamos, at Yale Rep. Reading it …
Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe
A letter I wrote to The New Yorker in the fall of 2006 after reading John Updike’s review of a …
Cycles of Violence (Macbeth)
Written in the Spring of 2006, for Robert Blacker’s course on Shakespeare’s Dramaturgy. I would later assist Robert on a …
Ibsen’s Scenography
Another excerpt from an undergraduate paper, this one on the buried Romantic symbolism in Ibsen’s “realistic” plays. I was lucky …
The Creation of the Self
An excerpt from my undergraduate honors thesis, on Ernst Toller and the collapse of Expressionist idealism in the early Weimar …
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