The little white attic

1/ Venus and Adonis , Shakespeare’s first narrative poem and first publication in general, is about the goddess seducing the beautiful man: ...

1/ Having read all the plays, I decided to go for Shakespeare’s non-dramatic poetry. There are a handful of sonnets I know quite well (18, 1...

This is quite a creative production, and in quite a few ways, interesting. It is set today: the Ghost for example is first seen on CCTV, and...

1/ In Shakespearean Tragedy , A. C. Bradley makes an interesting point that Julius Caesa r and Hamlet (two early plays in Shakespeare’s Tra...

1/ This is the first Chekhov play I’ve read, and it’s harder to read than Shakespeare or Ibsen—there are too many characters to keep track o...

Yesterday I was feeling down all day, so I thought I might as well tear my heart to pieces watching King Lear , having for some time felt an...

When I first read Chekhov, I was too young—I hadn’t lived. My rediscovery of Chekhov was two years ago, and now that I have loved and lost, ...

What possessed me to watch the Russian War and Peace less than 4 months after the BBC adaptation from 1972 ? Before commenting on Bondarchu...

I’m going through one of the worst times—perhaps the hardest—of my life. Heartbreak. So I turned to Chekhov. At a time of heartache and deje...

Spoiler alert: Again, if you haven’t read the book, you probably shouldn’t read this blog post, in which I will discuss significant plot po...