Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...indeed, well past the "showerbath" stage, but as yet far from the spirit of Elizabethan days which looked upon a man as hardly a gentleman who could not carry his part in a glee. The following eight reasons for singing are no less applicable to Harvard men because they were written in the sixteenth century...
...time he has delivered many lectures at the larger universities, nearly always speaking on some phase of the life or works of Shakespeare. He is an Englishman by birth and a prominent scholar in that country, having done much to contribute to the general knowledge in regard to the Elizabethan stage settings and theatres. As an authority on the literature and theatricals of that period, he is highly regarded in Europe and America...
...time in England. He has been in this country for over a year, during which time he has delivered many lectures on Shakespeare at the larger universities. As an English scholar, he has done much to contribute to the knowledge of the stage settings and theatres of the Elizabethan time, and is regarded everywhere as an authority on the literature and theatricals of that period...
...must bear the brunt. Reserved seats at theatres are on a special balck-list, and we know too well now the predilections of a certain friend in Boston who provides us with front row seats with an air of a charitable man. The galleries will probably come into their Elizabethan popularity again, and we shall learn to despise that vulgar place, the pit. Sleeping car reservations need hardly be mentioned. They follow along with all the other luxuries...
...there is much difference between this masque by Percy MacKaye and one of the Elizabethan masques by Ben Jonson. There will be 5,000 people in the cast of "Caliban"; the stage will be built on three levels; the scenic and lighting effects will be of the most artistic type; and the music will be of a character beautifully adapted to the theme and dramatic action...