drama

Thumbs up for Julius Caesar (No Fear Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare. Drama.

I’ve never read, nor watched Julius Caesar, and it seemed like a good addition to the other Roman historical fiction I’ve been wallowing in. Reading it was an illuminating experience, as throughout I kept thinking: “Oh, that’s where that quote is from!” And this is indeed a damnably quotable play – now one of my favorites, I think.… >> Read more

Thumbs up for The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Play.

Every line a stroke of brilliance.

Lady Bracknell.   Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die.  This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd.  Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids. 

Thumbs up for The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge. Play.

Once, many years ago, a bearded gentleman wearing a tweed jacket with patches on the elbows shaghaied me semi-randomly in a bookstore and waxed rhapsodic for far too long about the plays of J. M. Synge, who was apparently God’s gift to man. That was before Google included a spellcheck, so when I dutifully and unsuccessfully searched for the work of “J.… >> Read more

Thumbs up for Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Play.

Reading a little Irish drama right now, because that totally substitutes for going to Ireland – ha, ha. Yes, I liked this play. The prose epilogue made me scratch my head – this is a play, so what good does the epilogue do? Isn’t it obvious that of course Eliza will marry Freddy, and of course they will struggle?… >> Read more