Category: Plays

With The Oresteia, I begin my journey of Greek dramatists. I’ve only read Homer, and both his works are epic poems, not plays. I…

Antigone is another great play I have come across in my journey with Greek dramatists. This is my second play by Sophocles, and it…

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles was the next stop in my reading journey of Greek dramatists. After reading Oresteia, I have already fallen in love…

Medea is my first dramatic experience of Euripides. The play touches on the themes of infanticide, so I was rather apprehensive of reading it….

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

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…

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…

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

“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…