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Plays Wrap Up

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

June 12, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Arthur Miller, george bernard shaw, Matt Berns, Peter Schaffer, Sophocles, Trans D. D. R. Owen, Trans. Seamus Heaney

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:298 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Arthur Miller, george bernard shaw, Matt Berns, Peter Schaffer, Sophocles, Trans D. D. R. Owen, Trans. Seamus Heaney ·
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This fire left me feeling tepid

May 9, 2018 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I don’t normally take advice from the interwebs, but when I took a short “what should you read next quiz” that was posted to the CBR book chat page, the resulting recommendation intrigued me. Home Fire was described as a retelling of Antigone set in modern-day London. I haven’t read any Greek tragedy since high school, so I thought this could make an interesting study, to compare the classic with the modern. I have to confess, Greek tragedies were never my thing. I ate up all manner […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, classics, Greek tragedy, Kamila Shamsie, KimMiE", modern retellings, Political Fiction, Sophocles, tragedy

KimMiE"'s CBR10 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, classics, Greek tragedy, Kamila Shamsie, KimMiE", modern retellings, Political Fiction, Sophocles, tragedy ·
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