The Seagull by Anton Korenev My rating: 4 of 5 stars Thank you NetGalley and Anton Korenev Entertainment for providing me with an ARC of The Seagull in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. The Gist It has been so long since I last read a play. Now that I’m thinking about it, it must be at least ten years. Probably even longer, since I finished my minor in Drama before 2010. Time certainly flies. Before I started reading The Seagull, I was sure I had heard of the title before. Unfortunately, I just never had the opportunity to read it. I had a difficult time…
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare My rating: 3 of 5 stars Part of BBC’s “100 Stories that shaped the World” list, I thought it would be fun to keep track of all the works I have read that are listed.Oh! The tragedy! I had to read this play in high school and about 7 years later I decided to read it again before seeing it at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.It is not my favourite; to be completely honest it is tied with Hamlet as my least favourite of Shakespeare’s plays.It does capture the angst and brooding nature of the teenage years quite well (personally, I don’t look back on…
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Medea
Medea by Euripides My rating: 4 of 5 stars Part of BBC’s “The 100 stories that shaped the world” list, I thought it would be fun to keep track of all the works I have read that are listed.I have been feeling kind of down and blue since finishing my term paper (go figure) and thought a Greek tragedy would afford me some perspective. It didn’t fail. It has been a while since I last read a play, let alone a Greek play, but I am still surprised how much I enjoyed it; I even smiled a few times. Euripides’ writing and the dialogue he creates for Medea with respect…
