Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...FRIDAY.Euripides and the story of Medea in Ancient Art. Illustrated lecture by Dr. Morgan. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE ON ANCIENT ARTS.There will be an illustrated lecture on Euripides and the story of the Medea in Ancient Art by Dr. Morgan at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Friday...
Fifty thousand dollars of the one hundred and fifty thousand needed to purchase the site of ancient Delphi has been raised...
...places are more fit than Sanders for the presentation of a Greek tragedy. Its form is strikingly like an ancient amphitheatre and in fact save for the second gallery is essentially a copy. The theatre, therefore, thoroughly adapted itself to the setting of the ancient stage. The floor before the stage was occupied as of old by the chorus about the altar, and from it an easy flight of marble steps led to the court before the palace of Clytemnestra. The palace itself was represented by the schene and paraschene of the stage. It is impossible to enter here into...
...dramatic authorities. At Columbia college the students were given a half-holiday, and at the conclusion of the matinee witnessed by them, they gave loud calls for the author. In the Boston production at the Hollis Street Theatre, there will be shown as perfect a reproduction of the ancient Greek theatre of Sophocles time as is possible on a modern stage. Yet under Mr. David Belasco's stage management, the "Electra" will have a complete theatrical finish, with a thoroughness of stage effects, lights, casting and ensemble never before attempted in a classic play. The music and choral movements...