Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elizabethan era and the period immediately succeeding it supplied the subjects for the second division. Spenser, Lyly, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Donne were the authors reviewed...
...Harvard squad spent this afternoon with the big game only two days away, in a brief workout boning, passing, and kicking at grades. Greep, Crimson star in the pre-Elizabethan drama, was getting his long twisters away beautifully, and averaged from 65 to 70 on some of the longer floaters. Coach Hanford, who is, by the way, a booter of no mean ability himself, was not too well satisfied with the star's showing, remarked: "If we were playing the Law School such grades would be acceptable, but things look tough against an aggregation of freebooters like Yale's team...
...humor who had become tired of writing advertisements in New York City. He packed a grip and tore off to England to settle down in a manor house in the so-called Shakespere country. He procured a Man Friday of almost superhuman ability to help him run his Elizabethan home. His young daughter, fresh from American college arrives on the scene, and various complications, including a Shakespere discovery of international importance follow to carry the tale through to the inevitable return of the central character to his advertising firm in New York...
...play is The Making of an Immortal. Edward of Wales attended its premiere last week. He seemed diverted by a drama which unfolds upon the stage the theory that that erudite Elizabethan, Francis Bacon (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans), was the real author of plays now attributed to William Shakespeare. The stalls were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling...
...Italian gentleman, Petruccio, in a cowboy outfit and by introducing a modern touch to the lines, the audiences seem to become more appreciative of Shakespeare. 'The Taming of the Shrew' seemed to us particularly well adapted to modernizing. The original version, one of the most amusing farces of the Elizabethan stage, contained many 'local gags'. All example is the passage in the induction about 'Marian Hocket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot'. Shakespeare, without a doubt, changed 'Wincot' to the name of whatever town he was playing in, and made 'Marian Hocket' some local character. Thus he heightened the farcical...