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Oedipus by Sophocles

Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

Antigone by Sophocles

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Amadeus by Peter Schaffer

Deeper and Deeper by Matt Berns

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Oedipus – No Rating This is about the fiftieth time I’ve read this play, and I always enjoy it. It’s one of those plays I read when I was moving from being a reader to being a thinker about reading. I even wrote an essay about it in tenth grade. I have no clue what I wrote, but I started it at 10 pm the night before it was due. I had already gone to bed and then I suddenly remembered it. I think I […]

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story — Et al

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story by John Freeman

Broken Glass by Arthur Miller

Agamemnon by Aeschyles

The Libation Bearers by Aeschyles

Eumenides by Aeschyles

Here We Are by Dorothy Parker

Still Alarm by George S Kaufman

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The Penguin Book of Modern American Short Story – 4/5 Stars Its important to emphasize that this is a collection from about 1970 on, so while it’s “modern” it means contemporary and while it’s contemporary, it’s decidedly more recent than the normal break in American lit at WWII. This is important because it means that a lot of very well-known and established short-fiction writers like John Cheever, Donald Barthelme, John Updike, Flannery O’Connor, and Bernard Malamud are not considered. Otherwise it would seem to me […]

An acclaimed Arthur Miller play with mixed results

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

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I never read The Crucible in high school, but The Chancellor’s taught it to his American Literature class before, and he’s talked to me about Arthur Miller and the ideas he wrote about in his plays. Plus, I’d seen the AWFUL adaptation that was quite thick on nakedness and a bit thin on thematic development, so I was curious to see how the play would stack up. And, let’s not forget that we’re living in a weird hybrid McCarthyistic/Nixonian era that I thought only existed […]



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