Drama

“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”

— John Green

Why Drama?

The Origin of Drama - Greek

Aristotle's Poetics

Tragedy & Drama - Structure, Content, & Intent

Shakespearean Theatre & the Elizabethan Era

    • William Shakespeare - Background, Life, Plays, Poetry, Influence
        • Hamlet
        • The Tragedy of Macbeth
        • Much Ado About Nothing
        • Taming of the Shrew
        • Corialanus
        • Othello


    • Reading/Studying/Viewing Drama with a Critical Eye
        • Formalist
        • Mythology & Archetypes
        • Freudian Psychology
        • New Historicism
        • Feminist

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

— William Shakespeare

Contemporary Theatre

        • Evolution of Drama & Tragedy
        • Friedrich Nietzsche
        • Arthur Miller
        • David Mamet, "Mametspeak," and Sexual Politics