“A LIAR, SEDUCER, AND BOMBASTIC SELF-DECEIVER” IBSEN AND THE GENESIS OF PEER GYNT   Before there was the Ibsen of A DOLL’S HOUSE and HEDDA GABLER, there was the Ibsen …

A GOBLET FULL OF SCORPIONS: JERUSALEM IN THE 1190s NATHAN THE WISE is set in Jerusalem between the end of the third crusade and just before the death of the …

THE KNIGHT’S MOVE By Brian Kulick Lessing is perhaps, to Americans, the least known of his theatrical compatriots; that extraordinary convocation of German playwrights which includes Goethe, Schiller, Kleist and …