Considered to be one of William Shakespeare’s most entertaining plays, the plot of Midsummer Night’s Dream evolves on the borderline between the real and the imaginary. The plot takes place on the occasion of the Midsummer festival...
This contemporary American play by the African-American playwright Lynn Nottage, stages the story of the factory workers building the wealth of capitalist America with the labour of their hands, invisible to the glossy pantomime of mainstream America which paraded in mainstream discourse.
Hamlet is one of the four great tragedies of Shakespeare’s mature dramatic period. Interestingly enough, it might be the one play which still echoes with our modern sensibilities with the philosophical subtext which the brooding scholar-philosopher Hamlet brings to the original source story of the Scandinavian Amlet, which had its ........
Crumbs from the Table of Joy- Lynn Nottage.
Crumbs on the Table of Joy is a 1995 play by Afro-American writer Lynn Nottage. The play deals with the reality of black experience within contemporary America. It stages four characters in various states of.....
This play with the dry sounding name- An Experiment with an Air Pump- is a marvel of stage ingenuity, as it represents the complexity of human relationships among two groups of people, one back in 1799, the other in 1999. Both groups of people, inhabiting the same house, are poised on the cusp of change and social............
Eugene O’Neill was a major dramatist of the early decades of the twentieth century. His plays are considered to be realist drama with psychological intensity. Unlike the dramatists of an earlier generation his writing revolves not around working class issues but the psychology of the middle class.......
Measure for Measure is considered to be one of Shakespeare’s problem plays. It is dated from his middle period, between his early comedies and his tragic plays. Measure for Measure showcases recognizable dramatic devices from the comedies, for instance, exotic locales, shipwrecks, an all powerful Duke and bright..............
Moon on a Rainbow Shawl is a play in three acts, written by the Trinidadian playwright Errol John in 1957. At the time, it was considered to be a breakthrough play for introducing to the British stage the concerns and preoccupations of ‘black writing’. Although Errol John came to London at..............
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