william-shakespeare
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Fernando Pessoa’s (unpublished) play: The Duke of Parma
It was around 1909, according to biographer Richard Zenith, that Pessoa wrote the first pages of passages and scribbled fragmented notes for his five-act play, “The Duke of Parma: A tragedy.” Which, if it sounds rather Shakespearean, was supposed to be just that. According to Zenith: “It is one of the largest and weirdest of… Continue reading
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Reflections on Goethe’s: Faust part 1 and Ibsen’s: Peer Gynt & A Doll’s House
The essays on this blog have, thus far, been singularly analytical in their approach as far as the works dissected, from Shakespeare to Dickinson, from Rabelais to Whitman, from Nabokov to Montaigne. However, as many of these essays take much time and effort, I have had in mind for some time posting (in between larger,… Continue reading
The Western Canon 