3.81 avg rating — 88,774 ratings

"For environmental buffs, as well as theater fans, here 'tis: Shakespeare for jocks, especially wrestlers; Exile in the forest improves those banished, while the misanthropist Jacques delivers the Bard's usual-midpoint in play Great Speech,
including the poetical description of babe in arms, "Mewling and puking," which I've quoted whenever someone says the Bard's too poetic for them. Also, rap-sex-doggerel, "If a hart do lack a hind,/ Let him seek out Rosalind/... Winter garments must be lined/ So must slender Rosalind..."
"

3.95 avg rating — 5,271 ratings

"Man-Man's dog, a wonderful creation, roughly equal to Shakespeare's Crab, the clown's dog in Two Gentlemen of Verona. But instead of farting, Man-Man's dog craps on the bar after it's closed, in timed deposits. Titus Hoyt, the Latin teacher; the Mechanical Genius destroys a brand-new truck, etc. And th un-named protagonist, like Naipaul himself, wins a scholarship across the Atlantic at Oxford.
"

4.06 avg rating — 607,561 ratings

"A STEM selection: a Math genius puns and parodies on education: 'That's the reason they're called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day.'"

3.83 avg rating — 175,400 ratings

"SEE JOYCE'S IRELAND the NYT advertizes, Male Prostitution ("Two Gallants"), Would-be Pederast fails to catch two boys skipping school, etc. The Emerald Isle refused to publish this exposé, yet the NYT assumes no-one has read enough Joyce to know his blistering satire on his hometown that kept him an exile.
"

4.04 avg rating — 14,627 ratings

"A Tale of a Tub, the greatest satire on learning and religion: for ex., The Digression on the Usefulness of Wars and Quarrels...
"

3.86 avg rating — 31,099 ratings

"A great, amusing play--in the Guthrie Theatre version.
"

3.79 avg rating — 48,110 ratings

3.70 avg rating — 3,186,133 ratings

"Devastating critique of Romanticism, the quintessential American belief in Nature improving behavior. Her kids lost in Nature descend into devils.
"

4.21 avg rating — 2,038,033 ratings

3.82 avg rating — 68 ratings

"A very amusing play, especially in my translation (at the Royal Danish Library, British Library etc), by the man executed for what NASA spends $20B per annum on: otehr habitable worlds.
"

3.53 avg rating — 13,627 ratings

"Anotehr critique of American capitalism, by the greatest novelist of my time--and my Ph.D. advisor's good friend at U Minnesota (Leonard Unger).
"

4.03 avg rating — 101,026 ratings

4.33 avg rating — 36,245 ratings

"Read 'em aloud at 3, last a lifetime."

3.52 avg rating — 9,651 ratings

"The only Austen short and pithy enough to include, written at 15.
"