William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost
Love’s Labor’s Lost by William Shakespeare My rating: 4 of 5 stars This early Shakespearean comedy, dating from the 1590s, is paradoxically slight but weighty, thin but dense. That’s no … Continue reading
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My rating: 5 of 5 stars Goethe’s Faust, including Part One and Part Two, was written over the entire course of the author’s adult … Continue reading
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am neither a Marlovian scholar in particular nor an early modernist in general, but as far as I … Continue reading
Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night
Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill My rating: 4 of 5 stars Long Day’s Journey into Night, often considered one of the finest American dramas and as its … Continue reading
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Hamlet by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Why is this bizarre, disorderly, long, and poorly transmitted tragedy from the turn of the seventeenth century the central work … Continue reading
David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet My rating: 4 of 5 stars Look. Look. Are you LISTENing to me? I’m not some Brooklyn beggar, okay? I’m not some fucking Oberlin … Continue reading
William Shakespeare, King Lear
King Lear by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars What is King Lear about? “[T]he fierce dispute, / Betwixt damnation and impassion’d clay,” wrote Keats, but both terms … Continue reading
Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen My rating: 5 of 5 stars In my understanding of Ibsen’s career, The Master Builder (1892) belongs to the end of his realist period, … Continue reading
August Wilson, Fences
Fences by August Wilson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I know I said that I would read August Wilson’s Century Cycle in their chronological order, but everyone is talking … Continue reading
Brigid Brophy et al., Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without
Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without by Brigid Brophy My rating: 3 of 5 stars I wanted to read this 1967 book after reading about it on … Continue reading
