The complete online text of Helena by Mary Augusta Ward.

Mrs. Humphry Ward, born Mary Augusta Arnold, won worldwide recognition with the publication of Robert Elsmere (1888), which dramatized for countless readers the loss of faith in orthodox Christianity that resulted from the development of evolutionary sci...

To anyone interested in sampling the rottenest apple from the bottom of the cinematic barrel, let me commend Jennifer Chambers Lynch's Boxing Helena, a film acclaimed at the Sundance Festival, success at which is a guarantee of mediocrity or worse. Kim Basinger backed...

As Strauss's Die Ã"gyptische Helena returns to the Met repertory after an absence of seventy-plus years, JOHN SIMON reflects on its challenging nature. Die. Ã"gyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen) is a problem child among Strauss-Hofmannsthal operas, nearly the only one that has not...

A scorpion bit David Sullivan on the back of his right leg, just below the knee, then crawled up and down his left leg, he thinks, before getting him again in the shin.Not what he was expecting on his flight home from Chicago to Vermont.Sullivan,...

“The entire play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is set outside, so just to actually be in the elements, to have the air and the raccoons or, you know, whatever happens to wander up onstage … It just adds that much more to the magic,” cooed...