Advantages: good,easy to read Disadvantages: nothing
This play is from the a prominent figure in American theatre and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of dramas, including celebrated plays such as The Crucible, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are studied and performed worldwide " ...
Advantages: A great example of a greek tragedy Disadvantages: Doom and gloom
Hippolytus, the classic Greek tragedy, won first prize in the Great Feast of Dionysus in 428 B.C. Written by Euripides, this is a dark psychological play dealing with the powerful emotions of revenge, unrequited love and jealousy. The consequences are dir ...
Advantages: Hippolytus' speech slagging off women is beautiful (I'm a woman, I'm allowed to say that) Disadvantages: The characters just don't... feel right... somehow.
Euripides’ Hippolytus is weird. I can’t really describe it better than that. Despite the title, it’s hard to work out whether the focus of the tragedy is Phaedra, wife of Theseus, Hippolytus, her step-son, or Theseus himself. The themes within the play ar ...
Advantages: A beautiful and tragic play Disadvantages: It's no walk in the park
The Plot
Hedda Gabler is one of Ibsen's better known plays. It follows two days in the life of a beautiful aristocrat named Hedda Tessman. What is interesting is that Hedda is only referred to as Hedda Gabler (her maiden name). Ibsen did this so as to ...
Advantages: Great play from the father of modern drama Disadvantages: Some people will never get it
Perhaps best known for Ghosts and A doll's House Henrik Ibsen was one of the great iconoclastic playwrights that heralded a new drama. Well before his time Ibsen revolutionised a European stage dominated by spectacle and melodrama. His method was Naturali ...
