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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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