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...18th century we have the first indication of clandestine theatrical activity among students here. From the diary of Nathaniel Ames '61 come the notations in 1785: "July 6, Cato to perfection;" "July 14, Cato more perfect than before." In 1760 he wrote, "Acted Tancred and Sigismunda for which we are likely to be prosecuted," and, five years later, "Scholars punished at college for acting over the great and last day in a very shocking manner, personating the June, Devil...
...Spain, but not until long after Cervantes' death was he acknowledged as a great writer by the more respectable members of his fraternity. "Only the lowly understood him and praised him." A realist to the end, Cervantes penned his farewell in the last book he wrote, Persiles y Sigismunda: "Goodbye to thanks, goodbye to compliments, goodbye to good friends. . . ." Though he was buried in a Trinitarian monastery at Madrid his grave is unmarked, unknown...
...INGENIOUS HIDALGO! MIGUEL CERVANTES - Hans Ryner - Harcourt, Brace ($2.75). Ingenious also, Arthur Ryner has imagined the biography of Cervantes in the days of his age, when, as he finised Don Quixote and wrote Persiles y Sigismunda, he saw the dear sun waning and Death, be cause he laughed at it, "coming to him like a raillery." Author Ryner has well conjured the situations - Cervantes in Madrid, surrounded by poverty, influential enemies and with Death for a friend in need. Cervantes in Esquivias, draining the gay fountain of his wit, writing a happy and fantastic story as if thus to postpone...
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