National Theatre Live broadcasts a modern-day telling of Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by Jonathan Munby and starring Ian McKellen. Broadcasted live from the Chichester Festival Theatre in September

Measure for Measure, a play that fails to fit as a tragedy or a comedy, was known as Shakespeare's "problem play" because of its uncertain categorization. This humorous play addresses the serious

Burning Vision by Métis writer Marie Clements is play that connects people from three different countries and four different nationalities to a single event: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Though I stand in the kitchen with an apron tied around my waist and a stirring spoon in my hand, and am not a good cook, I become as a misleading raisin cookie, or an eye-catching but flavorless stew.

Death and the King's Horseman by Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka is based on true events that happened in Nigeria under British colonial rule in 1946. The character Elesin is the "King's Horseman,"

While Shakespeare’s historical tragedy Julius Caesar is titled after Julius, it is Brutus who becomes the tragic hero by the closing act of the play. Brutus, despite his role with the conspirators and

I am thy favourite card game, who rescued thee from times of boredom, out from the grasp of idleness. Thou shalt have none other card games before me. Thou shalt not use any other card deck as an alternative

Twentieth-century author Virginia Woolf shows how English society continues to be affected by the devastation of World War I in the years of peace through her celebrated novel Mrs. Dalloway. Although

Richard III, a historical tragedy and one of the earliest works by the one and only William Shakespeare displays a protagonist who is solely bent on evil. While other Shakespeare villains, like Edmund

Virginia Woolf, a twentieth-century writer, offers a portrait of life in England after World War I and how society, and especially soldiers, continues to be affected by the war in the years of peace through

In his article “The Death of Utopia Reconsidered,” Leszek Kolakowski describes social utopia as trying to accomplish “perfect and everlasting human fraternity” and equality (237,40). However, utopias can

The theme of religion is a topic that is constantly present in P. D. James’ dystopic novel The Children of Men. In a world where there is no hope nor future for humankind, people question the existence

The theme of sight and blindness is heavily present throughout Sophocles’s play, Oedipus Rex (also known as Oedipus the King). Oedipus is blind to his crimes, yet he insists that he be told the truth.

Ursula Le Guin’s use of Taoism should shape one’s interpretation of The Lathe of Heaven in its entirety. While the Western world might be tempted to view the novel from Haber’s point of view and see progress

April 21. I stand in line with my graduating class, all wearing black gowns and caps with a blue tassel dangling by our right ears. Music swells as the orchestra begins playing the graduation march. I

In a near-future dystopia, Alfonso Cuarón creates a world where humanity has become infertile. Without the ability to reproduce, humanity loses its hope for the future because without children, a day will

Zombies are one of the more frightening monsters in film and literature because they are intelligent, emotional, and moral human beings who are transformed into dead, instinctual animals with zero intellect

Even at nine-years-old, I knew I wanted to be a writer. I filled up pages and pages of journals with half-finished stories and story ideas and character drawings. Sometimes, I typed them out on the computer.

In his 1977 article called “An Image of Africa,” Chinua Achebe, who is a scholar of African literature, addresses the Western assumption that the West embodies the ideal cultural standard while all other

When a nine-year-old aspiring writer is given the prompt to write about a "mystery," this is the result... Got to love all those adjectives and adverbs! The Mystery Egg There was a spotted egg