458BC Aeschylus- Oresteia 431BC Euripides- Medea 429BC Sophocles- Oedipus Rex 411BC Aristophanes- Lysistrata 317BC Menander- The Miser 195BC Plautus- The Pot of Gold 160BC Terence- The Brothers 150BC Sudraka- The Little Clay Cart 100BC Kalidasa- Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection 65BC Seneca- Thyestes 1250 Zecheng- Romance of the Lute 1290 Zhiyuan- Autumn in Han Palace 1300 Hanqing- Injustice to Dou E ...
Recently I got it into my head that I want to write a play. I'm not sure where the idea came from, but as I've written poetry and write short stories, I suppose having a go at playwrighting is a natural step in my creative writing journey. That being said, I have written plays before. In secondary school I wrote two plays. One was really good (or I thought it was then anyway); it was a parody of an UK TV programme called Allo Allo for those that remember it. It was funny, and got ...
It's the veritable warhorse when it comes to writing poetry: concrete language. For many beginning writers, their abstractions serve to derail the poem, but what happens when the poem falls into more capable hands? I think most of us would agree that when it comes to writing no rule applies 100 percent of the time, and I know a poem cannot be built on entirely abstract language. Still, in the poems I read (many of which are of a more experimental and contemporary nature) I think ...
My computer is killing me! I want a new one right now! I am trying to be smart about this and know what I am getting and not buy something that will last for a year. my brother is gonna ask a friend of his who is very smart when it comes to computers, he saved me when I threw out the internet. I feel like I need to have two computers so I am hoping this one will be good enough for watching shows and for my son, but the new one just for school! I have decided not to buy a car next ...
As many of you know, Matthew has strabismus (crossed eyes) and his surgery to correct this is tomorrow. It will be done in the morning and should be home later that day. We have to be at the hospital at 8:00 AM and the poor little guy can’t have anything to eat after midnight tonight and can’t have anything to drink after 6:00 AM the morning of the surgery. If I do give him something to drink it can only be water, pedialyte or apple juice. The surgery itself usually takes 20 ...
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