Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Miss Maude Adams will give two performances of "As You Like It," under the auspices of the Harvard English Department, in Sanders Theatre, on Monday and Tuesday, June 1 and 2, 1908. The Elizabethan stage used in the production of "Hamlet" by Mr. Forbes-Robertson in April, 1904, will be reconstructed. The stage will be a reproduction of the "Fortune Theatre" as it existed in London in Elizabethan times. To make this possible, all the ground-floor seats in Sanders Theatre will be removed, and the stage built out into the pit about 20 feet. By means of scenic devices...
...Delta Upsilon Fraternity has chosen for its annual play "Bartholomew Fair," a five act Elizabethan comedy by Ben Jonson. Performance have been arranged as follows: March 31, Graduates' Night performance in Brattle Hall; April 3 and April 9, public performance in Brattle Hall; April 7, public performance in Boston; April 11, performance in "The Barn" at Wellesley. Arrangements are also being made for performances at Smith College, Northampton, and in New York...
...Sohier Prize of $250, for the best thesis presented by a successful candidate for honors in English or in modern literature, has been divided between Hermann Hagedorn, Jr., '07, for a thesis on "The Plays of the English Comedians in Germany, and the Reasons underlying the Mutilation of the Elizabethan Originals," and Samuel Monteflore Waxman '07, for a thesis on "The Don Juan Legend in Literature...
...University of Berlin will extend through the first semester which closes in February, when he will return to this country and conduct his usual courses during the second half-year. The subject of his lectures will be the History of English Literature from the Norman Conquest to the Elizabethan Era. He will also give a seminary course on Arthurian Romance...
...poems, Mr. Hagedorn's salutation of the Monthly to the Advocate is good after-dinner verse; Mr. Eliot's "Song" sings "Carpe Diem" agreeably; the bravado of Mr. Powel's "Thomas Doughty" hardly catches the Elizabethan note...