"Armance"(1827) is the first novel written and published by the French writer Stendhal.The work describes the complicated relationship between two lovers (Armance and...
Philoctetes
Sophocles' Philoctetes begins with their arrival on the island. Odysseus explains to Neoptolemus that he must perform a shameful action in order to garner future glory - to take...
The Women's Festival
Today the women at the festival are going to kill me for insulting them!' This bold statement by Euripides is the absurd premise upon which the whole play depends. The women are...
The Tragedie Of Macbeth
The Tragedie of Macbeth, written between 1605 and 1608, is one of the most famous tragedies by William Shakespeare. Although the text is short, the play is particularly incisive...
Henry Iv
A history play by William Shakespeare, depicting a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon in Northumberland against the Douglas late in 1402, and ends...
Dorothy Forster
Sir Walter Besant (14 August 1836 – 9 June 1901), was a novelist and historian. William Henry Besant was his brother, and another brother, Frank, was the husband of Annie...
Suicides
Suicides" is a story by the French writer Guy de Maupassant. The work is dedicated to the painter Georges Legrand. The whole story is aimed at the distressing repetitiveness...
Days Made Of Glass
Shared blood defines a family, but spilled blood can too.Harlie Cooper raised her sister, Angel, even before their mother died. When their guardian is killed in a fire, rather...
Favourite Son
Television anchorman, John Boorman, has everything a man could want. He drives a Bentley, lives in a multi-million-pound house and has a closet full of....skeletons. A secret he...
Pericles
The play opens in the court of Antiochus, king of Antioch, who has offered the hand of his beautiful daughter to any man who answers his riddle; but those who fail shall die....
