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  • Hamlet reviews

    Hamlet Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Not only was Hamlet one of William Shakespeare’s most popular works during his lifetime, it is also considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature. “T...

  • El Rey Lear reviews

    El Rey Lear Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Rey Lear es una tragedia de William Shakespeare. El personaje del título cae en la locura después de deshacerse de sus bienes entre dos de sus tres hijas en función de su adulación...

  • No Thoroughfare reviews

    No Thoroughfare Book Reviews

    Wilkie Collins & Charles Dickens

    Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfive. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, ten at night. All the lesser London ch...

  • King Lear reviews

    King Lear Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Lear decides to abdicate and split his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Cordelia refuses to flatter her father like her sisters and is banished. Go...

  • Romeo y Julieta reviews

    Romeo y Julieta Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Romeo y Julieta (título original en francés,  Roméo et Juliette) es una ópera en un prólogo y cinco actos con música de Charle...

  • Four Plays of Aeschylus reviews

    Four Plays of Aeschylus Book Reviews

    Aeschylus & E. D. A. Morshead

    First published in 1934 in Fantasy Fan, “Gods of the North,” also published as “The Frost Giant’s Daughter” and “The Frost King’s Daughter,” is Story #8 of The Conan Saga, a series...

  • Clouds reviews

    Clouds Book Reviews

    Aristophanes

    Scene: The interior of a sleepingapartment: Strepsiades, Phidippides, and two servants are in their beds; a small house is seen at a distance. Time: midnight. Strepsiades (sitting ...

  • The Tempest reviews

    The Tempest Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Prospero, a mage and former Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda have been stranded for 12 years on an island. Prospero's brother Antonio, who deposed him, is shipwrecked w...

  • Oliver Cromwell reviews

    Oliver Cromwell Book Reviews

    John Drinkwater

    Spanning the years 1639 to 1654, this play about English statesman Oliver Cromwell focuses on his family life as well as his political development.

  • The Agamemnon of Aeschylus reviews

    The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Book Reviews

    525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus

    The Trilogy of the Oresteia, which deals with the eternal problem of the evil act causing vengeance which wreaks more evil which must be avenged. Aeschylus declares that the new ru...

  • Nickelodeon and Disney reviews

    Nickelodeon and Disney Book Reviews

    Lakhan Sunder

    A variety of all the favourite shows and characters on Nickelodeon and Disney channel.

  • Romeo and Juliet reviews

    Romeo and Juliet Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy has inspired musicals, ballets, operas, and, of course, countless movies, including Italian director Franco Zeffirell...

  • Death of a Salesman Willy Lines reviews

    Death of a Salesman Willy Lines Book Reviews

    Arthur Miller

    Death of a Salesman, Dramatists Play Service, without stage directions, Willy's lines highlighted.

  • The Greatest Drama Ever Staged reviews

    The Greatest Drama Ever Staged Book Reviews

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    Essays; contains "The Greatest Drama Ever Staged" and "The Triumph of Easter", both of which were published in The Sunday Times, April 1938

  • The Duchess of Padua reviews

    The Duchess of Padua Book Reviews

    Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most po...

  • Cato A Tragedy, in Five Acts reviews

    Cato A Tragedy, in Five Acts Book Reviews

    Joseph Addison

    This influential early eighteenth century tragedy, written in verse, is based on the last days of Roman Stoic Cato the Younger, and deals with themes such as individual liberty, lo...

  • Titus Andronicus reviews

    Titus Andronicus Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Taking his cue from the Roman plays of Seneca, Shakespeare piles on the horrors in this tale of murderous revenge. The most appalling moment is either the discovery of Titus's...

  • The Taming of the Shrew reviews

    The Taming of the Shrew Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Baptista Minola has two daughters, the beautiful Bianca and the shrewish Katherina. A visiting stranger, Petruchio, learns of Katherina's large dowry, marries her and through ...

  • Julius Caesar reviews

    Julius Caesar Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    After defeating enemies in battle, Roman citizens celebrate in the streets as Julius Caesar and his entourage make their way through the city. As Caesar passes a soothsayer, he rec...

  • Christmas Magic reviews

    Christmas Magic Book Reviews

    Kristina Howells

    For Sally the thought of spending Christmas all alone for the first time was a daunting prospect. Then a gentleman walked into her life with interesting consequences.

  • Measure for Measure reviews

    Measure for Measure Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Duke Vincentio has given his deputy Angelo temporary power over Vienna before his leave for a diplomatic mission. But instead of leaving the city, the Duke disguises himself as a f...

  • Macbeth reviews

    Macbeth Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s darkest and most tragic works, a drama so steeped in legend that actors won’t even say its name for fear of bringing...

  • The Merchant of Venice reviews

    The Merchant of Venice Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    The young venetian noble Bassanio seeks to woo the beautiful heiress Portia of Belmont. He turns to his friend, a merchant named Antonio, who agrees to help him financially. They g...

  • Orgullo y prejuicio reviews

    Orgullo y prejuicio Book Reviews

    Jane Austen

    Con la llegada del rico y apuesto Mr. Darcy a su región, las vidas de los Bennet y sus cinco hijas se vuelven del revés. El orgullo y la distancia social, la astucia y la hipocresí...

  • Twelfth Night reviews

    Twelfth Night Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    A storm has caused a terrible shipwreck off the Illyrian coast. Two siblings, Viola and her brother Sebastian, become separated, each believing the other has drowned. Viola washes ...

  • Naked reviews

    Naked Book Reviews

    judith falloon-reid

    A short story dedicated to the author's mother, who is here in body but not in mind. And to all those lives that have been changed by a family member living with Alzheimer’s o...

  • Lysistrata reviews

    Lysistrata Book Reviews

    Aristophanes & Norman Lindsay

    Lysistrata (/laɪˈsɪstrətə/ or /ˌlɪsəˈstrɑːtə/; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, "Armydisbander") is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BCE,...

  • As You Like It reviews

    As You Like It Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    The elaborate gender reversals in this pastoral comedy set in the Forest of Arden are of considerable interest to modern critics. At one point in the play, the heroine Rosalind bec...

  • As You Like It reviews

    As You Like It Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    In a French duchy, the old Duke has been usurped by his younger brother, Frederick. A young man named Orlando is mistreated by his elder brother, against their dead father’s wishes...

  • Pygmalion reviews

    Pygmalion Book Reviews

    George Bernard Shaw

    Pygmalion is a 5act play by George Bernard Shaw. It was written in 1912 and first produced in 1913. The plot revolves around Professor Henry Higgins’ bet with a colleague over whet...

  • Plays by August Strindberg, Second series reviews

    Plays by August Strindberg, Second series Book Reviews

    August Strindberg

    Strindberg was fifty years old when he wrote “There Are Crimes and Crimes.” In the same year, 1899, he produced three of his finest historical dramas: “The Saga of the Folkungs,” “...

  • The Death of Wallenstein reviews

    The Death of Wallenstein Book Reviews

    Friedrich Schiller

    A room fitted up for astrological labors, and provided with celestial charts, with globes, telescopes, quadrants, and other mathematical instruments. Seven colossal figures, repres...

  • Romeo and Juliet reviews

    Romeo and Juliet Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare (was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often...

  • The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus reviews

    The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Book Reviews

    Christopher Marlowe

    CHORUS. Not marching in the fields of Thrasymene, Where Mars did mate the warlike Carthagens; 1 Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, In courts of kings where state is overturn’d;...

  • Othello reviews

    Othello Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare (was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often...

  • Othello reviews

    Othello Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Othello, a successful Moorish general in the service of Venice, elopes with Desdemona, the daughter of a Venetian noble. His evil lieutenant Iago works on his jealousy and persuade...

  • Pygmalion reviews

    Pygmalion Book Reviews

    George Bernard Shaw

    Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins mak...

  • Twelfth Night reviews

    Twelfth Night Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Viola is shipwrecked and believes her twin, Sebastian, has been killed. Masquerading as a boy, she enters the service of Duke Orsino, who is in love with Olivia. Olivia, believing ...

  • There Are Crimes and Crimes reviews

    There Are Crimes and Crimes Book Reviews

    August Strindberg

    Strindberg was fifty years old when he wrote “There Are Crimes and Crimes.” In the same year, 1899, he produced three of his finest historical dramas: “The Saga of the Folkungs,” “...

  • Memorias de un perdedor. reviews

    Memorias de un perdedor. Book Reviews

    Rodolfo Villanueva Don

    Es una pequeña recopilación de los textos que poco a poco y día a día he ido escribiendo, algunos basados en experiencias propias, algunas totalmente inventadas. Algunas cartas y a...

  • The Medea of Euripides reviews

    The Medea of Euripides Book Reviews

    Euripides & Gilbert Murray

    Euripides’ classic play, based on the myth of Jason and Medea, about a barbarian woman who retaliates against the husband who leaves herhere in the 1912 translation by Gilbert Murr...

  • Henry V reviews

    Henry V Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Written by William Shakespeare around 1599, The Life of Henry the Fifth , more commonly known as Henry V , chronicles the later history of King Henry the Fifth of England and his e...

  • Faust reviews

    Faust Book Reviews

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Goethe's FAUST is a classic tragic play, telling the story of a wager between God and Mephistopholes (Satan), who wishes to tempt the central character, Faust, away from right...

  • Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works reviews

    Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Book Reviews

    Kalidasa & Arthur W. Ryder

    Considered to be the greatest Classical Sanskrit poet and dramatist, Kalidasa likely wrote in the fifth century C.E. This edition of his work, translated by Arthur W. Ryder, includ...

  • Macbeth reviews

    Macbeth Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare (was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often...

  • Windows reviews

    Windows Book Reviews

    John Galsworthy

    The MARCH’S diningroom opens through French windows on one of those gardens which seem infinite, till they are seen to be coterminous with the side walls of the house, and finite a...

  • Julius Caesar reviews

    Julius Caesar Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Conspirators, some highminded like Brutus, others not, plot the assassination of the dictator Julius Caesar to save the Roman republic from tyranny. But after Caesar's death, ...

  • Plays, Acting and Music reviews

    Plays, Acting and Music Book Reviews

    Arthur Symons

    When this book was first published it contained a large amount of material which is now taken out of it; additions have been made, besides many corrections and changes; and the who...

  • Hamlet reviews

    Hamlet Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    The prince of Denmark tries to summon the will to kill his father's murderer, his uncle and now king.

  • Henry V reviews

    Henry V Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    The former wastrel Prince Hal has now become a shrewd and courageous monarch. His invasion of France leads to overwhelming triumph at the battle of Agincourt, not least because of ...

  • A Trophy For Arvie reviews

    A Trophy For Arvie Book Reviews

    Robert Chapin

    Preston Cunningham and Arvie were the best of friends. Raised in the quaint New England Town of West Brookfield, Massachusetts, an hours drive from the world famous Tanglewood, the...

  • Murder In Ogunquit reviews

    Murder In Ogunquit Book Reviews

    Robert Chapin

    The Abenaki Indian Tribe is awarded 15,000 acres in a U.S. Supreme Court decision for land taken illegally by the U.S. government in 1850. Their goal: to construct the world's...

  • Faust - Part 1 reviews

    Faust - Part 1 Book Reviews

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Maintaining the immortal play’s original metre, Bayard Taylor’s 1872 translation of Goethe’s tragedy tells the tale of Faust, a scholar who wagers his soul with the devil.

  • Uncle Vanya reviews

    Uncle Vanya Book Reviews

    Anton Chekhov

    ALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor HELENA, his wife, twentyseven years old SONIA, his daughter by a former marriage MME. VOITSKAYA, widow of a privy councilor, and mother o...

  • Aristophane reviews

    Aristophane Book Reviews

    Eugène Talbot & Sully Prudhomme

    Eugène Talbot propose, en 1897, une nouvelle traduction de cinq pièces d’Aristophane : Les Akharniens, Les chevaliers, Les nuées, Les guêpes et La paix. L’auteur, poète comique du ...

  • The Sea-Gull reviews

    The Sea-Gull Book Reviews

    Anton Chekhov

    The scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate. A broad avenue of trees leads away from the audience toward a lake which lies lost in the depths of the park. The avenue is ob...

  • A Song For David reviews

    A Song For David Book Reviews

    Robert Chapin

    Sergeant Preston Cunningham is reassigned from a civilian status position while serving with the Army in Frankfurt, Germany into the heat of battle in Southeast Asia. In Vietnam he...

  • L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits reviews

    L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits Book Reviews

    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

    Seneca details the good and bad behavior of those who receive benefit from others. He argues that you can give some one help and do them more harm than good by how you give and wha...

  • King John reviews

    King John Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    John's claim to the English throne is weak and the French king demands his abdication. There follows a dizzying change of alliances, a Papal excommunication and the final pois...

  • The Complete Works of Shakespeare reviews

    The Complete Works of Shakespeare Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    The most complete collection of Shakespeare's works available in a single book, containing 41 plays, 7 poems and 154 sonnets. This edition includes coauthored and rare apocryp...

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  • Hamlet reviews

    Hamlet Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Not only was Hamlet one of William Shakespeare’s most popular works during his lifetime, it is also considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature. “T...

  • El Rey Lear reviews

    El Rey Lear Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Rey Lear es una tragedia de William Shakespeare. El personaje del título cae en la locura después de deshacerse de sus bienes entre dos de sus tres hijas en función de su adulación...

  • No Thoroughfare reviews

    No Thoroughfare Book Reviews

    Wilkie Collins & Charles Dickens

    Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfive. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, ten at night. All the lesser London ch...

  • King Lear reviews

    King Lear Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Lear decides to abdicate and split his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Cordelia refuses to flatter her father like her sisters and is banished. Go...

  • Romeo y Julieta reviews

    Romeo y Julieta Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Romeo y Julieta (título original en francés,  Roméo et Juliette) es una ópera en un prólogo y cinco actos con música de Charle...

  • Four Plays of Aeschylus reviews

    Four Plays of Aeschylus Book Reviews

    Aeschylus & E. D. A. Morshead

    First published in 1934 in Fantasy Fan, “Gods of the North,” also published as “The Frost Giant’s Daughter” and “The Frost King’s Daughter,” is Story #8 of The Conan Saga, a series...

  • Clouds reviews

    Clouds Book Reviews

    Aristophanes

    Scene: The interior of a sleepingapartment: Strepsiades, Phidippides, and two servants are in their beds; a small house is seen at a distance. Time: midnight. Strepsiades (sitting ...

  • The Tempest reviews

    The Tempest Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Prospero, a mage and former Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda have been stranded for 12 years on an island. Prospero's brother Antonio, who deposed him, is shipwrecked w...

  • Oliver Cromwell reviews

    Oliver Cromwell Book Reviews

    John Drinkwater

    Spanning the years 1639 to 1654, this play about English statesman Oliver Cromwell focuses on his family life as well as his political development.

  • The Agamemnon of Aeschylus reviews

    The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Book Reviews

    525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus

    The Trilogy of the Oresteia, which deals with the eternal problem of the evil act causing vengeance which wreaks more evil which must be avenged. Aeschylus declares that the new ru...

  • Nickelodeon and Disney reviews

    Nickelodeon and Disney Book Reviews

    Lakhan Sunder

    A variety of all the favourite shows and characters on Nickelodeon and Disney channel.

  • Romeo and Juliet reviews

    Romeo and Juliet Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy has inspired musicals, ballets, operas, and, of course, countless movies, including Italian director Franco Zeffirell...

  • Death of a Salesman Willy Lines reviews

    Death of a Salesman Willy Lines Book Reviews

    Arthur Miller

    Death of a Salesman, Dramatists Play Service, without stage directions, Willy's lines highlighted.

  • The Greatest Drama Ever Staged reviews

    The Greatest Drama Ever Staged Book Reviews

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    Essays; contains "The Greatest Drama Ever Staged" and "The Triumph of Easter", both of which were published in The Sunday Times, April 1938

  • The Duchess of Padua reviews

    The Duchess of Padua Book Reviews

    Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most po...

  • Cato A Tragedy, in Five Acts reviews

    Cato A Tragedy, in Five Acts Book Reviews

    Joseph Addison

    This influential early eighteenth century tragedy, written in verse, is based on the last days of Roman Stoic Cato the Younger, and deals with themes such as individual liberty, lo...

  • Titus Andronicus reviews

    Titus Andronicus Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Taking his cue from the Roman plays of Seneca, Shakespeare piles on the horrors in this tale of murderous revenge. The most appalling moment is either the discovery of Titus's...

  • The Taming of the Shrew reviews

    The Taming of the Shrew Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Baptista Minola has two daughters, the beautiful Bianca and the shrewish Katherina. A visiting stranger, Petruchio, learns of Katherina's large dowry, marries her and through ...

  • Julius Caesar reviews

    Julius Caesar Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    After defeating enemies in battle, Roman citizens celebrate in the streets as Julius Caesar and his entourage make their way through the city. As Caesar passes a soothsayer, he rec...

  • Christmas Magic reviews

    Christmas Magic Book Reviews

    Kristina Howells

    For Sally the thought of spending Christmas all alone for the first time was a daunting prospect. Then a gentleman walked into her life with interesting consequences.

  • Measure for Measure reviews

    Measure for Measure Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Duke Vincentio has given his deputy Angelo temporary power over Vienna before his leave for a diplomatic mission. But instead of leaving the city, the Duke disguises himself as a f...

  • Macbeth reviews

    Macbeth Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s darkest and most tragic works, a drama so steeped in legend that actors won’t even say its name for fear of bringing...

  • The Merchant of Venice reviews

    The Merchant of Venice Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    The young venetian noble Bassanio seeks to woo the beautiful heiress Portia of Belmont. He turns to his friend, a merchant named Antonio, who agrees to help him financially. They g...

  • Orgullo y prejuicio reviews

    Orgullo y prejuicio Book Reviews

    Jane Austen

    Con la llegada del rico y apuesto Mr. Darcy a su región, las vidas de los Bennet y sus cinco hijas se vuelven del revés. El orgullo y la distancia social, la astucia y la hipocresí...

  • Twelfth Night reviews

    Twelfth Night Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    A storm has caused a terrible shipwreck off the Illyrian coast. Two siblings, Viola and her brother Sebastian, become separated, each believing the other has drowned. Viola washes ...

  • Naked reviews

    Naked Book Reviews

    judith falloon-reid

    A short story dedicated to the author's mother, who is here in body but not in mind. And to all those lives that have been changed by a family member living with Alzheimer’s o...

  • Lysistrata reviews

    Lysistrata Book Reviews

    Aristophanes & Norman Lindsay

    Lysistrata (/laɪˈsɪstrətə/ or /ˌlɪsəˈstrɑːtə/; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, "Armydisbander") is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BCE,...

  • As You Like It reviews

    As You Like It Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    The elaborate gender reversals in this pastoral comedy set in the Forest of Arden are of considerable interest to modern critics. At one point in the play, the heroine Rosalind bec...

  • As You Like It reviews

    As You Like It Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    In a French duchy, the old Duke has been usurped by his younger brother, Frederick. A young man named Orlando is mistreated by his elder brother, against their dead father’s wishes...

  • Pygmalion reviews

    Pygmalion Book Reviews

    George Bernard Shaw

    Pygmalion is a 5act play by George Bernard Shaw. It was written in 1912 and first produced in 1913. The plot revolves around Professor Henry Higgins’ bet with a colleague over whet...

  • Plays by August Strindberg, Second series reviews

    Plays by August Strindberg, Second series Book Reviews

    August Strindberg

    Strindberg was fifty years old when he wrote “There Are Crimes and Crimes.” In the same year, 1899, he produced three of his finest historical dramas: “The Saga of the Folkungs,” “...

  • The Death of Wallenstein reviews

    The Death of Wallenstein Book Reviews

    Friedrich Schiller

    A room fitted up for astrological labors, and provided with celestial charts, with globes, telescopes, quadrants, and other mathematical instruments. Seven colossal figures, repres...

  • Romeo and Juliet reviews

    Romeo and Juliet Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare (was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often...

  • The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus reviews

    The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Book Reviews

    Christopher Marlowe

    CHORUS. Not marching in the fields of Thrasymene, Where Mars did mate the warlike Carthagens; 1 Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, In courts of kings where state is overturn’d;...

  • Othello reviews

    Othello Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare (was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often...

  • Othello reviews

    Othello Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Othello, a successful Moorish general in the service of Venice, elopes with Desdemona, the daughter of a Venetian noble. His evil lieutenant Iago works on his jealousy and persuade...

  • Pygmalion reviews

    Pygmalion Book Reviews

    George Bernard Shaw

    Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins mak...

  • Twelfth Night reviews

    Twelfth Night Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Viola is shipwrecked and believes her twin, Sebastian, has been killed. Masquerading as a boy, she enters the service of Duke Orsino, who is in love with Olivia. Olivia, believing ...

  • There Are Crimes and Crimes reviews

    There Are Crimes and Crimes Book Reviews

    August Strindberg

    Strindberg was fifty years old when he wrote “There Are Crimes and Crimes.” In the same year, 1899, he produced three of his finest historical dramas: “The Saga of the Folkungs,” “...

  • Memorias de un perdedor. reviews

    Memorias de un perdedor. Book Reviews

    Rodolfo Villanueva Don

    Es una pequeña recopilación de los textos que poco a poco y día a día he ido escribiendo, algunos basados en experiencias propias, algunas totalmente inventadas. Algunas cartas y a...

  • The Medea of Euripides reviews

    The Medea of Euripides Book Reviews

    Euripides & Gilbert Murray

    Euripides’ classic play, based on the myth of Jason and Medea, about a barbarian woman who retaliates against the husband who leaves herhere in the 1912 translation by Gilbert Murr...

  • Henry V reviews

    Henry V Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Written by William Shakespeare around 1599, The Life of Henry the Fifth , more commonly known as Henry V , chronicles the later history of King Henry the Fifth of England and his e...

  • Faust reviews

    Faust Book Reviews

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Goethe's FAUST is a classic tragic play, telling the story of a wager between God and Mephistopholes (Satan), who wishes to tempt the central character, Faust, away from right...

  • Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works reviews

    Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Book Reviews

    Kalidasa & Arthur W. Ryder

    Considered to be the greatest Classical Sanskrit poet and dramatist, Kalidasa likely wrote in the fifth century C.E. This edition of his work, translated by Arthur W. Ryder, includ...

  • Macbeth reviews

    Macbeth Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare (was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often...

  • Windows reviews

    Windows Book Reviews

    John Galsworthy

    The MARCH’S diningroom opens through French windows on one of those gardens which seem infinite, till they are seen to be coterminous with the side walls of the house, and finite a...

  • Julius Caesar reviews

    Julius Caesar Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    Conspirators, some highminded like Brutus, others not, plot the assassination of the dictator Julius Caesar to save the Roman republic from tyranny. But after Caesar's death, ...

  • Plays, Acting and Music reviews

    Plays, Acting and Music Book Reviews

    Arthur Symons

    When this book was first published it contained a large amount of material which is now taken out of it; additions have been made, besides many corrections and changes; and the who...

  • Hamlet reviews

    Hamlet Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    The prince of Denmark tries to summon the will to kill his father's murderer, his uncle and now king.

  • Henry V reviews

    Henry V Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    The former wastrel Prince Hal has now become a shrewd and courageous monarch. His invasion of France leads to overwhelming triumph at the battle of Agincourt, not least because of ...

  • A Trophy For Arvie reviews

    A Trophy For Arvie Book Reviews

    Robert Chapin

    Preston Cunningham and Arvie were the best of friends. Raised in the quaint New England Town of West Brookfield, Massachusetts, an hours drive from the world famous Tanglewood, the...

  • Murder In Ogunquit reviews

    Murder In Ogunquit Book Reviews

    Robert Chapin

    The Abenaki Indian Tribe is awarded 15,000 acres in a U.S. Supreme Court decision for land taken illegally by the U.S. government in 1850. Their goal: to construct the world's...

  • Faust - Part 1 reviews

    Faust - Part 1 Book Reviews

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Maintaining the immortal play’s original metre, Bayard Taylor’s 1872 translation of Goethe’s tragedy tells the tale of Faust, a scholar who wagers his soul with the devil.

  • Uncle Vanya reviews

    Uncle Vanya Book Reviews

    Anton Chekhov

    ALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor HELENA, his wife, twentyseven years old SONIA, his daughter by a former marriage MME. VOITSKAYA, widow of a privy councilor, and mother o...

  • Aristophane reviews

    Aristophane Book Reviews

    Eugène Talbot & Sully Prudhomme

    Eugène Talbot propose, en 1897, une nouvelle traduction de cinq pièces d’Aristophane : Les Akharniens, Les chevaliers, Les nuées, Les guêpes et La paix. L’auteur, poète comique du ...

  • The Sea-Gull reviews

    The Sea-Gull Book Reviews

    Anton Chekhov

    The scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate. A broad avenue of trees leads away from the audience toward a lake which lies lost in the depths of the park. The avenue is ob...

  • A Song For David reviews

    A Song For David Book Reviews

    Robert Chapin

    Sergeant Preston Cunningham is reassigned from a civilian status position while serving with the Army in Frankfurt, Germany into the heat of battle in Southeast Asia. In Vietnam he...

  • L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits reviews

    L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits Book Reviews

    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

    Seneca details the good and bad behavior of those who receive benefit from others. He argues that you can give some one help and do them more harm than good by how you give and wha...

  • King John reviews

    King John Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    John's claim to the English throne is weak and the French king demands his abdication. There follows a dizzying change of alliances, a Papal excommunication and the final pois...

  • The Complete Works of Shakespeare reviews

    The Complete Works of Shakespeare Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    The most complete collection of Shakespeare's works available in a single book, containing 41 plays, 7 poems and 154 sonnets. This edition includes coauthored and rare apocryp...