Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...celebrated French architect, Daniele Barbaro and other guests of honor. The masque itself, representing the progress of architecture through the ages then proceeded. Father Time introduced, in order, the spirits of the various styles of architecture. Each spirit was accompanied by different figures including the Romanesque, Gothic, Elizabethan, and Classic orders, each group of figures participating in a dance. This was followed by a representation of modern architecture as prophesied by the students of Cambridge University. The second masque represented the uniting of ancient and modern architecture...
...final performance of "The Fair Maid of the West," the Elizabethan play being given by the Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, will be in "The Barn" at Wellesley this evening at 8 o'clock. Tickets may be obtained at the Co-operative Branch...
...fourth public performance of "The Fair Maid of the West" the thirteenth annual revival of an Elizabethan play by the Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, will be given in Players' Hall, West Newton, this evening at 8 o'clock...
This year's Delta Upsilon play is a happy choice as an Elizabethan revival; for few plays of that famous time show so vividly the time itself, as Thomas Heywood's "Fair Maid of the West." Through it blows vigorously the Elizabethan air: the breeze and braggadocio of the coast town and its tavern (a majority of the best scenes, and the real "home-scenes" of the play, are in taverns), and of the lovable, boyish soldier of fortune, free of rapier and purse; the praise of courage and the ridicule of cowards; the passion for fighting against Spain...
Stronger than all--perhaps because including all--is the true and honest wholesomeness of the play. A keen judge has called Heywood an Elizabethan ancestor of Col. Newcome; and the spirit of the courteous and well-bred qualities is strong and full in "The Fair Maid of the West." The play is thus genuinely a revival, for it is given practically intact. So invigorating is the courageous, open-air climate that even the most arrant coward is shamed out of his cowardice into as energetic courage; the returning Captain Goodlack, who is much tempted to gainful villany, is too conscious...