The little white attic

Among the 5 Shakespeare plays I had read before last year, As You Like It was one that I chose to read myself rather than get assigned in cl...

Like Titus Andronicus , this is considered one of Shakespeare’s weakest plays. How bad could it be? Let’s see.  1/ If I’m not mistaken, The ...

Watching the Oscars was to me, for a long time, a “family tradition”. But this year, I’m utterly indifferent—the ceremony is in 4 days but I...

This is the first play I’ve read by John Webster, a Jacobean playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare. Dated around 1612-1613, it is consi...

1/ First, let’s get the who’s who questions out of the way.  Saturninus is son to the late Emperor of Rome, afterwards Emperor.  Bassianus i...

My personal list, maybe idiosyncratic. Some are firm choices, some may be different tomorrow. - The 40s: The Great Dictator (1940) Citizen ...

Before last year, the Shakespeare plays I had read were Hamlet , Julius Caesar , King Lear , Twelfth Night , and As You Like It . My favouri...