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...Copeland spoke last evening in Sever 11 on several famous actors of the day. He first gave a short criticism of Hamlet as taken by Mr. Beerbohm Tree, a summary of which criticism is briefly this...
...picture of Hamlet goes, Mr. Tree deserves much praise. He is graceful and well-knit, and he suggests extremely well a melancholy, northern prince. But his presentation of Hamlet is to a very great degree confined to the trappings and outward show...
...list of spring books soon to be brought out by Elkin Mathews, the well known London publisher, appears "The Elizabethan Hamlet: a study of the sources of Shakespeare's environment, to show that the mad scenes had a comic aspect now ignored," by John Corbin, Harvard...
...since then has been studying there certain archaic features of the Elizabethan drama in preparation for the publication of his book, which will have a prefatory note by F. York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. As its title shows, the book is a study of Hamlet, and of Shakespeare's environment, with the object of showing that the mad scenes now played had a comic aspect now ignored. Mr. Corbin's general point of view is that Shakespeare only wrote the drama for Elizabethan audiences. They, in their time, saw jest in what would seem...
...Tree has announced as the subject of his talk on Friday afternoon, "Some Aspects of the Stage." He has also invited the officers of the Harvard Press Association and the English Department of the Faculty, to be present at his performance of Hamlet on Thursday evening. Thirty seats and a box have been reserved for this purpose...