I may be an American but I spent the Platinum Jubilee week reading plays about the modern British monarchy: King Charles III and The Audience.
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Reviews of Jitney, King Hedley II, and Radio Golf, the plays that round out the 20th century and August Wilson’s Century Cycle.
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Reviews of Seven Guitars, Fences, and Two Trains Running, the plays in August Wilson’s Century Cycle covering the postwar and Civil Rights era.
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Reviews of the first four plays (1900s-1930s) in August Wilson’s Century Cycle, plus, how I stumbled upon an autographed Wilson collection in my local library system.
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My biggest takeaway from reading the complete works of Shakespeare during the pandemic is that Coriolanus and Measure for Measure are incredibly underrated.
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Six months late, I finally get around to blogging a list of the books & plays that helped get me through the strangest year in recent memory.
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Reviews of two 1930s books that satirize mediocre nightclub singers and the cities they inhabit: Gabriele Tergit’s Käsebier Takes Berlin and John O’Hara’s Pal Joey.
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One year late, I finally get around to blogging a list of the books & plays I read in the Last Normal Year.
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Reviews of Shakespeare’s two “Two Dudes” plays. TLDR: Gentlemen is about a sociopath and in Kinsmen, everyone’s gay.
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I read Shakespeare’s three Henry VI plays and I still can’t explain the Wars of the Roses.
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Reviews of TItus Andronicus and Timon of Athens, two of Shakespeare’s weirder (and more easily confused) tragedies.
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Reviews of Much Ado About Nothing and Love’s Labor’s Lost, two Shakespeare plays featuring witty intellectuals who surprise themselves by falling in love.
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Reviews of As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale, two Shakespeare plays that contrast corrupt, decadent court life and wholesome, natural countryside life.
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Reviews of Shakespeare’s obscure, oddball history plays King John and Henry VIII, after reading them for the first time for my Shakespeare book club.
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Reviews of George Sand’s Indiana and Victor Hugo’s Hernani: two 1830s French works full of melodrama, romanticism, and love quadrangles.
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My traditional round-up of the books and plays that I read in the past year.
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Reviews of some plays I read in 2018… featuring robots, rock ‘n’ roll, and multiple murders.
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In honor of the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, my thoughts on the canonical World War I drama Heartbreak House.
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