Playwrights


A Doll's House
Romeo and Juliet
Othello
A Streetcar Named Desire
King Henry IV, Part 1
Hamlet
Death of a Salesman
The Merchant of Venice
Macbeth: Moment by Moment
The Crucible
The Glass Menagerie
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Tempest
A Raisin in the Sun
The Importance of Being Earnest
John Osborne
Most playwrights should observe the same constitutional rights as the Queen: to be consulted, to advise and to warn.
John Osborne, Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise

Stewart Stafford
If I could rewrite the ending of any Shakespeare play, it would definitely be the finale of Romeo and Juliet. That dénouement just seems so far-fetched, over-complicated, and forced into a tragedy. It would have worked much better with a happier ending. While it is realistic that young lovers might take their own lives because of relentless interference and persecution, the Tragic Ex Machina (a sudden, unearned disastrous intervention) mechanism chosen was neither believable nor apt. The Bard pe ...more
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