Classic to Modern English Literature

All My Sons is a three-act play written in 1946 by Arthur Miller . It opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York city on January 29, 1947, closed on November 8, 1947 , and ran for 328 performances. The play was directed by Elia Kazan (to whom it is dedicated), produced by Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman , and won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award.  Kazan and Harold Clurman, and won the New York Drama Critics ’ Circle Award. It starred Ed Begley, Beth Merrill, Arthur Kennedy, and Karl Malden and won both the Tony Award for Best Author and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. The play was adapted for films in 1948 and 1987 . It was premiered in Coronet Theatre [ The Eugene O’Neill Theatre , previously the Forrest Theatre and the Coronet Theatre , is a Broadway theater at 230 West 49 th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City ]. New York City , January 29, 1947 . It was set at The Kellers ’ yard in late August 19

A Midsummer Night's Dream is set in Athens and revolves around the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. The comedy was written by William Shakespeare in 1595 or 1596. The title suggests an atmosphere of fantasy, whimsy, and imagination. In an interesting, the word “dream” only appears 14 times throughout the play and the only variation of it, “dreams,” appears just twice. It was first performed between 1595 and 1596. The play was written to celebrate the wedding of Elizabeth Carey. It expresses, "gender and power", "appearance and reality", "order and disorder", "dream and consciousness." Thomas Fisher published the first quarto edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1600. He entered the play into the Register of the Stationers' Company on October 8, 1600. On the other hand, Arthur Rackham illustrated a limited edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1939. The play belongs to th