Love's fire

Love's fire

by Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange, Eric Bogosian, John Guare, William Finn, Wendy Wasserstein, Tony Kushner

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The fruit of an extraordinary project, Love's Fire reimagines seven of Shakespeare's immortal love sonnets as one-act plays by seven of the best playwrights in America. These short gems, paired with the sonnets that inspired them, are published here for the first time.

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  1. 1

    How does seeing Shakespeare's classic sonnets translated into late 20th-century American contexts change your perception of what "timeless" love actually means?

  2. 2

    Which of the playwrights' interpretations subverted or challenged your personal expectations of the sonnet that inspired it the most?

  3. 3

    Love often involves obsession, jealousy, and pain in both Shakespeare's verse and these modern plays; how do these authors portray the darker, destructive side of desire?

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