James Armstrong, Playwright

Last night, I saw Duncan Pflaster's new play Nothing but Thunder , which is currently showing at Theater for the New City as a part of t...

Written in 1573, Torquato Tasso's play Aminta is perhaps the quintessential pastoral drama of the Italian Renaissance . The play begins...

In the past, I've written about commedia erudita and commedia dell'arte , but not all drama during the Italian Renaissance fell nea...

One of the first playwrights in Italy to try to copy classical drama was Albertino Mussato, who wrote a Latin tragedy called Ecerinis aroun...

The year 1789--when Parisian mobs stormed the Bastille, breaking into the prison than symbolized the old feudal order and setting its prison...

In his book Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School , Jeffrey Cox examines a group of writers, including John Keats, Percy and Mary Shelle...

Three books, all with the same title, Romanticism , deal with the same topic. Indeed, all employ the same key word in discussing the art and...

It is commonly accepted that in Elizabethan theatres black curtains indicated the playing of tragedies. One line in the anonymous play A War...