Why do people find Chekhov boring?
The short answer is that in Chekhov’s plays nothing happens. His subject is boredom. Nobody actually says, as Estragon says at the beginning of Waiting for Godot, “Nothing to be … Continue reading
November 17, 2020 · Leave a comment
The comedy of Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida is sometimes thought of as one of Shakespeare’s Problem Plays, but I think of it as a comedy. Not a romantic comedy, like A Midsummer Night’s Dream … Continue reading
November 1, 2016 · Leave a comment
Modern theatre’s debt to Ben Jonson
Comedies are not easy to read. In tragedy words are everything, in comedy it is the action, the way the characters interact, that matters. Every comedian knows that the laugh … Continue reading
February 5, 2014 · Leave a comment
