This post originally appeared on the Ploughshares blog in July 2019. Traditional fairytales, despite their reputation as stories for young children, are replete with horror and gore. The fairytale genre is one in which evil queens dance themselves to death
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is often used as an example of a work astride two movements: modernism and postmodernism. It was written in 1955 when modernism was experiencing something of a revival in the wake of the Second World
First Performed Plays First Printed 1590-91 Henry VI, Part II 1594? 1590-91 Henry VI, Part III 1594? 1591-92 Henry VI, Part I 1623 1592-93 Richard III 1597 1592-93 Comedy of Errors 1623 1593-94 Titus Andronicus 1594 1593-94 Taming of the