The little white attic

1/ This is a retelling of Sophocles’s play but, you know what, I see Shakespeare’s stamp all over it.  “ALCANDER Methinks we stand on ruins;...

1/ The play is about Don Sebastian, the King of Portugal who has just been captured by Muley-Moluch, the Emperor of Barbary. In one plotline...

As I’m exploring Restoration drama, it’s inevitable that at some point I must get to Congreve, the most popular comic playwright of the peri...

The full title is All for Love, or the World Well Lost .  1/ When I was reading Racine, I was thinking that his greatness must have mainly b...

When Molière and Racine were writing and staging their plays in France, Shakespeare was long dead—the English stage was then dominated by Dr...

I read both plays in the translations by Samuel Solomon, who used the Latin names (Andromache, Orestes, Cephisa, Berenice, Paulinus…) rather...

1/ Some time last year, I read The School for Wives (in Richard Wilbur’s translation). What I didn’t know was that the play was a scandal a...

1/ The Argonautica has a clear structure: the first half (Books 1 and 2) is about Jason and the Argonauts’ voyage to Colchis for the golden...

First, some context. Also known as Jason and the Argonauts , this is an epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius (or Apollonius of Rhodes) in...

Yesterday, coincidentally on the anniversary of Dickens’s death (9/6), I was finishing Dombey and Son . That took a while! But now I have fi...