Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
“The Oedipus Cycle” is made up of three plays by Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. I cannot remember at this moment what motivated me to read or reread these plays; something...
View ArticleOedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
This is the second play in a trilogy; see the first, Oedipus Rex, here. At the opening of Oedipus at Colonus, 20 years have passed, during which Oedipus has wandered in exile with his daughter Antigone...
View ArticleAntigone by Sophocles
This is the third play in a trilogy. Please see my write-ups of the first two: Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. I have studied Antigone in some depth before, also in Fitzgerald’s translation, and I...
View ArticleThe Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
I had a pleasant reread of this early Shakespeare comedy in preparation for the Houston Shakespeare Festival this summer. Of course you saw my post the other day about what a special copy of the book...
View ArticleA View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller
Another tragic dramatic masterpiece from Arthur Miller. I read Death of a Salesman and The Crucible in school; I am hoping to see this one produced onstage soon, so I picked up A View From the Bridge,...
View ArticleThe Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
from Wikimedia CommonsI am working on a Maximum Shelf for the first book of Hogarth Shakespeare: The Gap of Time, by Jeanette Winterson. In preparation, naturally, I got myself a copy of The Winter’s...
View ArticleWriters by Barry Gifford
Barry Gifford’s brief fictional scenes of celebrated authors are funny, tragic and insightful. The prolific and versatile Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart; The Lost Highway) has a little fun with a range...
View ArticleTwelfth Night by William Shakespeare
In preparation for Devon McNamara’s seminar at the recent residency, I reread Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, in the copy I bought for an undergraduate class some 15 years ago. Some things don’t change. I...
View ArticleLong Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
This play takes place over a single day, from 8:30 am to midnight, in five scenes in four acts. It features a family of four, Mary and James Tyrone and their two adult sons Jamie and Edmund. Mary is a...
View ArticleWVWC Dept. of Theatre and Dance presents Fool For Love (2019)
Written by Sam Shepard in the ’80s, this one-act play features just four actors/characters; this production was student-directed, and one of the lead roles was played by one of my students. (I was...
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