Word: tale
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Scarecrow" is based on Hawthorne's tale of "Feathertop," but is in no way a dramatization of it. "Starting with the same basic theme," Mr. MacKaye writes in his introduction to the published play, "I have sought to elaborate it, by my own treatment, to a different and more inclusive issue." He builds from Hawthorne's satire of coxcombry and charlatanism, "a tragedy of the ludicrous." In Hawthorne, "the scarecrow Feathertop is ridiculous, as the emblem of a superficial fop;" in Mr. MacKaye's play, "the scarecrow Ravensbane is pitiful, as the emblem of human bathos." The play...
...takes some lines, however, for the reader to decide which York is meant, the only New York, the English city, or the old English settlement in Maine. Mr. Schenck contributes a story, Fate and the Traitress, novel in situation. The reader is quite taken by surprise twice during the tale. A very good novel might well be made from this short story. Some rather blind verses on The Blind Angel, and reviews of recent books close the number...
...Horse Thieves," by H. Hagedorn '07, is a tale of the western prairies. Two horse thieves are caught by the sheriff and thrown into jail. The sheriff's daughter falls in love with the younger and threatens if he is killed, to marry an effeminate minister whom her father hates. The sheriff in order to save his daughter from such a marriage allows the two to leave the sate and his daughter to marry the one she loves...
...Death and the Dicers," by F. Schenck '09 is an adaptation of Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale." There roisterers go forth to kill Death, but become embroiled in an altercation concerning the division of a pot a gold which they have found. In the dispute all are killed. The play ends with the specter of Death standing over the three, symbolic of the fate of those who seek gold with evil intent...
...Monday evening, May 17, the Dramatic Club will present for the first time four original one-act plays by Harvard men. The first is a comedy of western life by H. Hagedorn '07; the second a morality play, adapted from Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, by F. Schenck '09; the third a dramatic poem by H. Hagedorn '07, and the fourth a comedy dramatized from Charles Lever's "Con Cregan," by L. Hatch '05. The first performance will be in Potter Hall next Monday evening; there will also be performances in Brattle Hall on Tuesday, May 18, and Thursday...