Category: Plays

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…

“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…

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

Here is an author who knows how to write a play. When it comes to comedy, none amuses me the way he does. His…

“Hypocrisy is now a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues…All the other vices of mankind are subject to censuré, and anyone…

A Woman of No Importance is yet another drawing-room play by Oscar Wilde, where he satirizes the morals, hypocritical conventions, and general views and…

The Inspector General by Gogol is one of the best satirical plays that I’ve read. Gogol is well known for his satire, either subtle…

I watched My Fair Lady about twenty years ago and all I remember is that a linguistic professor taking in a common flower girl…

Tartuffe or “The Imposter” or “The Hypocrite” by Moliere is a wonderful play about a religious hypocrite. The play was banned in his day…