Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb's conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on hi…
An extraordinary work of the aesthetic imagination, cast in the form of a psycho-drama detailing the events of one night in the life of the …
Described as a "problem play" Measure for Measure is only as much a problem as life itself is- that is, are there any easy answers…
One of James's last great stories, it is not actually a ghost story but has every claim to be considered such with its mysterious spectral e…
"A miraculous masterpiece" it seemed to Henry James, who wrote it. What actually happens in this most remarkable story (though at…
Euripides' Bacchae tells of Dionysus, the God, come to the city of Thebes, there to drive mad those who refuse participation in his ecstatic…
An everyday tale of a young Victorian housewife who turns into a fox and the troubles her husband then has in dealing with her increasingly …
