Rails to Light came about as a result of my reading the book Riding the Rails. I was appalled by the teenagers

Perhaps the most comedic of all the Shakespeare plays, The Comedy of Errors, verges on farce with its confused identities, slapstick violence, and confused intentions. This play vociferously demands Coleridge's…

Of the five major Shakespearean tragedies-Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Othello-Macbeth is in some ways the most accessible. For one it is the shortest. For another the…

Like many writers, I suppose I have an idealized picture of the past, of my youth, when everything was green and golden and all the calves sang to my huntsman’s…

There are numerous townsites in western Kansas where people tried to build a settlement. They trusted in the land, in themselves, in their children, and in the future. One of…

The Western has become an archetype for the founding of a great portion of the United States. The behavior of the men and women who pioneered the great, vast prairies…

Timon of Athens might be regarded as the ancestor of Moliere's Les Misanthrope--in that Alceste seems to embody all the negativity of Timon. Timon also illustrates the error of equating…

Much Ado About Nothing is a delightful play which pits two intelligent, thinking people against each other, both of whom protest against love (and each other), but who finally come…