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 …
Tag Archives: ReDiscovery
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. …
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 …
ReDiscovery
Imagine if you can: it’s a Monday night, theatres all over America are “dark” as the actors, stage managers and …
Corneille’s HORATIUS
Is Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) the most underrated playwright in dramatic literature? Prolific, poetically gifted and instinctively experimental, he architected neoclassicism …
Lee Blessing’s FORTINBRAS
[In which, for a ReDiscovery reading, I try to figure out just what Lee Blessing is up to with FORTINBRAS, …
DOGG’S HAMLET/CAHOOT’S MACBETH
In a more than 50-year career, Tom Stoppard (1937-) has established himself as perhaps England’s greatest living playwright. The funny …
Toni Morrison’s DESDEMONA
[Me and Ayanna Thompson during the postshow talkback] Toni Morrison (1931-) is the greatest American novelist of the last 100 …
Bond’s Bingo (BINGO)
Edward Bond (b. July 18, 1934) is among the most influential and intellectual of modern British playwrights. Following George Bernard …
Drew Lichtenberg 