Mother's Day

The Tale of Genji was written shortly after the year 1000 in Japan's Heian era, when the capital was situated at Heian-kyo (present-day Kyoto). Genji, the hero of the Tale, is the son of the emperor...

JOCASTA O sun-god, who cleavest thy way along the starry sky, mounted on golden-studded car, rolling on thy path of flame behind fleet coursers, how curst the beam thou didst shed on Thebes, the day...

Dramatis Personae  Dionysus Cadmus Pentheus Agave Teiresias First Messenger Second Messenger Servant Scene  Before the Palace of Pentheus at Thebes. Enter DIONYSUS. DIONYSUS Lo! I am come to this...

Dramatis Personae  ANDROMACHE MAID OF ANDROMACHE CHORUS OF PHTHIAN WOMEN HERMIONE, daughter of MENELAUS and wife of Neoptolemus MENELAUS, King of Sparta MOLOSSUS, son of ANDROMACHE and Neoptolemus...

OVERTURE MRS. JOHNSTONE  Tell me it's not true Say it's just a story NARRATOR  So did y' hear the story Of the Johnstone twins? As like each other as two new pins Of one womb born, on the self same...

PROLOGUE - THE STORY OF CHESS Budapest, Hungary, 1956. A small crowded room; people huddle under blankets while, in one corner, a father teaches his daughter an ancient game. GREGOR Florence, please...

Statues and Stories Clara Mother? What happened here? Margaret What did happen here? I played a tricky game in a foreign country. What did I do? Clara Mother? Margaret What happened here? Well let's...

Q: "What are your earliest recollections?" RINGO: "My first recollection is when we moved house. We moved just over the road. People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know. (laughs)...

Good evening: Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist...

Thank you, thank you so much. Thank you, Dick Durbin, you make us all proud. On behalf of the great state of Illinois, crossroads of a nation, land of Lincoln, let me express my deep gratitude for the...