Oedipus enters the village of Colonus and sits down on a stone. They are approached by a villager, who demands that they leave, because that ground is sacred to the Furies, or...

Medea is centered on a wife’s calculated desire for revenge against her unfaithful husband. The play is set in Corinth some time after Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece, where...

Mary Cholmondeley was born at Hodnet near Market Drayton in Shropshire, the third of eight children of Rev Richard Hugh Cholmondeley (1827–1910) and his wife Emily Beaumont...

A successful entrepreneur Stockmann, a popular citizen of a small coastal town turned into a villain as he discovers that the town's source of pride and income is contaminated....

Study Guide… is a collection of notes that introduce students – and not only students – to poems, novels or plays written in English. They facilitate learning...

One of Shakespeare's most famous stories of young lovers, Romeo and Juliet who would do anything to be together.

Lysistrata is a comedy originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. A comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades...

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.' Shakespeare is often referred to as the great teacher of life and for a good reason too. His tales offer worldly...

"The Duel" is a story by Anton Chekhov. Like many of the tales of the Russian writer, it is a rather profound story, within which there is a substantial metaphor: that...

Everyone needs a place to live, even zombies….Half human half zombie Alex is on another adventure – after defeating an evil wizard and putting Antonio’s dreams on hold, this...