From the cutthroat halls of “The West Wing” to the boozy nightclubs of “Casablanca,” drama has the power to transport us into a different place, time, and perspective (if only for a little while). But ...

IN an introductory lecture I gave last week at Harvard, I tried to clear the ground for laying the cornerstones of a National Anglo-American drama. I tried to justify the phrase ’ National ...

A soliloquy is a speech that a character delivers while they are alone onstage or believe themselves to be alone. It is a device used in drama to reveal the character’s innermost thoughts and ...