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Ottawans got to know William Congreve a little better. Two nights in a row last week, John Gielgud's company presented the Restoration dramatist's Love for Love at the Capitol Theater. Halfway through the first act, two clergymen in the first-night audience got up and walked out. (Asked a member of the cast next day: "But surely they knew what they were coming to see, didn't they?") The Ottawa Journal called it "the sexiest, bawdiest and most outspoken comedy-drama that ever unfolded publicly on an Ottawa stage."* Said the Ottawa Citizen more mildly...
...history students one of their liveliest and most authoritative pictures of the Cavalier tradition, the manners & morals, art & architecture of Colonial America. Wertenbaker was twice appointed to Oxford's honored Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Chair of American History. His advice to students: "Teacher says Shakespeare was a great dramatist; question it. Teacher says Jamestown was the birthplace of the nation; question...
...fail to understand their high priestess. Less devoted followers of the No. 1 woman of modern dance are only apt to be confused as they wander desperately through her cryptic program notes to see what she is trying to tell them. Last week, to packed houses in Manhattan, Dance-Dramatist Graham unleashed two new messages for the cultists, the confused and the curious...
...admirer of plain speaking (especially his own), Gilbert detested hypocritical modesty in women, and such "ideal" types as mild-mannered curates. Of the clergy in general he was shy and suspicious. He also disliked his fellow dramatist William Shakespeare, whose writing he considered "obscure." "What do you think of this passage?" he scornfully asked a Shakespearean enthusiast: " 'I would as lief be thrust through a quicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle.'" The enthusiast explained: "A great lover of feathered songsters, rather than disturb the little warbler, would prefer to go through a thorny hedge...
English 240b. Henry Fielding as Dramatist, Novelist, and Essayist. Half-course (spring term). Mon., 4-6. Professor Sherburn...