Friedrich Schiller’s DEMETRIUS
Sometimes characterized as that country’s answer to Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) is one of Germany’s greatest poets, playwrights, and public …
Category Archives: 2016-17
Malevolent Mendacity (THE SCHOOL FOR LIES)
I’ve lived with mendacity!—Why can’t you live with it? Hell, you got to live with it, there’s nothing else to …
The Stories Not Told (NT)
When events transpire that change world history, who gets left behind? When those who write history work for the colonizing …
The Double Meanings of MACBETH
Macbeth, more than perhaps any of Shakespeare’s other plays, seems to have been written fast. It feels like a feverish …
Corneille’s HORATIUS
Is Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) the most underrated playwright in dramatic literature? Prolific, poetically gifted and instinctively experimental, he architected neoclassicism …
The Classical Paradox (Julius Caesar: Spared Parts, Third World Bunfight’s Macbeth)
Every production of a Shakespearean text, no matter how antiquarian or heretical in approach, exhibits what I like to call …
The Hemingway Myth (THE SELECT)
[Written for Elevator Repair Service’s presentation of The Select, their adaptation of The Sun Also Rises.] When it comes to 20th-century authors, …
A Bit of Earth: Frances Burnett and the Secret Garden
When The Secret Garden first appeared, in 1910, it did not resemble the story that millions of children and …
Bartlett’s Bardolatry (King Charles III)
[Written for David Muse’s production of KC3, which went into rehearsal in San Francisco months before it got to Washington. -DL] …
The Birth of Modern Tragedy (ROMEO & JULIET)
[The long version of the program essay. Having taught the play the semester before at the New School, I had …
Drew Lichtenberg 