New York City Trip – May 25, 2024
On Saturday May 25, 2024 I made another bus trip to New York City. My main objective on this trip was to see the Brian Friel play “Molly Sweeney” at the Irish Repertory Theatre. On…
Month: May 2024
Book Review – The Romantic Imagination
The Romantic Imagination by Cecil Maurice Bowra is a very insightful study of the poets of the Romantic movement. You may wonder why a playwright would read a book on poets. One of my key…
On Being Gifted
One of the reasons I like having a blog is so I can write about things that cannot be discussed on the Internet. You certainly cannot have an intelligent conversation about what it means to…
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “The Cenci”
I came across this obscure play while reading The Dancing Faun by Florence Farr. Florence Farr was an actress closely associated with William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw. In the novel, the actress practices…