Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair example of this Elizabethan lust for life that is satisfied by Boston's Home Picture Newspaper, the following headlines called from two pages may be cited: Madman Kidnaps Auto Driver. Vodka Homicide, Dies in Auto Blaze, Air Vet Held in Matricide, Dead Beside Prayers, Find Body of Girl Severed, Battle Today on Bertolini, and Hot Knife Halts Bleeding, while corporate liquidation is taken advantage of by the merry police, who drag the river bottom in "the hope of stirring up more of the body...
...attempts to stage a Shaksperian play must face the task with temerity, Mr. Howard said. However, he pointed out, it is well not to let that temerity stultify you. If certain changes appear desirable for modern staging, especially considering the differences in the modern stage and the stage of Elizabethan London, there is no reason why a modern producer should hesitate to make them, according to Mr. Howard...
...Nicoll begins with a disingenuous comparison of the present-day cinema with Elizabethan drama. What appears to be an account of our cinema, "a thing of almost mushroom growth, having a valid tradition which extended over no more than a few decades," whose managers "were intent only on what the box office receipts testified to be of immediate appeal," is a criticism equally applicable to the drama in Shakespeare's day. Having but placed us in a receptive state of mind, Mr. Nicoll proceeds to give an historical summary of the amazingly swift development of the cinema from its genesis...
...courses in English and American Literature have been renumbered with the exception of English 23--Shakspere, English 27--The Elizabethan Dramatists...
Albert John Farmer, professor of English and American Literature at the University of Bordeaux, will come as exchange professor from France for the first half year. His courses will be on "The Modern English Novel" and "The Elizabethan Dramatists." An Englishman, Dr. Farmer graduated from the University of Manchester, and subsequently moved to France. His publications have concerned English Literature in the late 19th Century, particularly the works of Walter Pater, essayist and critic...