The Myth of Camelot
From roughly 1943 to 1960, the Broadway musical entered its Golden Age, a period of commercial success and aesthetic innovation …
Category Archives: 2017-18
Much Ado About Nothing (Waiting for Godot)
There has perhaps never been a play so resistant to symbolic interpretations—so insistent on its simple, concrete, theatrical reality—and yet …
Great Play or the Greatest Play? or, What Happens in HAMLET (with apologies to Dover Wilson)
George Bernard Shaw once wrote that there have been “innumerable volumes of nonsense written about the meaning of Hamlet.” All …
The Meaning of THE WILD DUCK
What is it that has drawn David Auburn, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award and one of …
J.B. Priestley’s TIME AND THE CONWAYS and the Theater’s Wide Gap of Time
I. The Wide Gap of Time Lead us from hence, where we may leisurely Each one demand an answer to …
The Feminism & Modernism of Edith Wharton (THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT)
When thinking of progressive authors, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) may not be the first name that comes to mind. Born into …
Bildungswoman (VANITY FAIR)
Born in Calcutta in 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray was the only child of an administrator in the East India Company. …
Topsy-Turvy, or the Feast of Epiphany (TWELFTH NIGHT)
On the twelfth night after Christmas—no later than January sixth—the great Elizabethan houses held enormous festivals of eating, drinking and …
A Room of One’s Own (THE LOVER/THE COLLECTION)
Of the crop of revolutionary English playwrights of the late 1950s and early 60s—often labeled the “Angry Young Men” because …
Time and Place
“A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination […]” A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 5.1.18-19 As so often …
Drew Lichtenberg 