Tragedy and Democracy (The Oresteia)

March 21, 2019

The stories a truly democratic society tells are tragic ones. They ask questions and offer answers on success and failure, …

Bildungswoman (Vanity Fair)

January 15, 2019

William Makepeace Thackeray, one of the fathers of modern prose, possessed a wickedly ironic, savagely unsentimental tone that marks him …

December 16, 2018

Ever since it first appeared onstage, Richard III has remained among Shakespeare’s most widely produced and popular plays, and its …

October 24, 2018

Ever since his own time, no one has known quite what to make of Carl Sternheim or his work. Like …

October 10, 2018

Lead us from hence, where we may leisurely Each one demand an answer to his part Performed in this wide …

August 8, 2018

One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, The Comedy of Errors is also two plays in one. The action begins with a …