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May 8, 2025

Hamlet – William Shakespeare

Hamlet is the best psychological play of Shakespeare. Most of his tragedies penetrate into the characters’ psychologies, but no one comes close to Hamlet…

April 19, 2025

Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare

This is yet another interesting Shakespearean comedy. The play has one saucy and sharp tongued woman in the character of Beatrice. I’m quite new…

March 25, 2025

Othello – William Shakespeare

Othello is one of Shakespeare’s popular tragedies. Its main themes are jealousy, treachery and revenge, but race, too, plays a vital role. Othello is…

March 25, 2025

Macbeth – William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a dark tale of bloodshed, superstition, and doom. Macbeth, a general of King Duncan, driven by ambition and encouraged by false…

January 25, 2025

A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen

This is a brilliant play by Henrik Ibsen which is also my first introduction to the author. The play mainly revolves around the theme…

January 25, 2025

Ghosts – Henrik Ibsen

“I’m inclined to think that we are all ghosts, every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers…

January 12, 2024

Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett called his playWaiting for Godot “a tragi-comedy in two acts”. It is because, through his play, he wanted to demonstrate the tragic…

July 17, 2022

No Exit – Jean-Paul Satre

“You remember all we were told about the torture chambers, the fire, and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for…

November 23, 2021

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare

This is one of the most hilarious comedies of Shakespeare that I have read, even funnier than A Comedy of Errors . Combining fantasy…

November 22, 2021

The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard is a story that portrays the end of an era of landed gentry in Russia. With the fall of the nobility,…

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