Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...inspiration of Phedre, as with the Greek and Latin plays of old, came from the church. The play of Euripides, as we feel the giant force of the ringing sentences, while it holds us entranced, yet makes us shudder with horror at the uncouth roughness of the plot. The characters are in the main the same, the only marked difference being in the relative importance given to Phedre and Hyppolites; in the Greek, the play centres about the man, our only feeling towards Phedre being of the utmost contempt, such only as we might feel for the lowest of human...
...three roles and have met with the greatest commendation wherever they have appeared this season. Mr. George Alison will be seen as Viscount Litterly, Mr. Beaumont Smith as the Count De-Greville, and Mr. Lorrimer Stoddard as the Earl of Tweenways. It is unnecessary to sketch the plot of "The Amazons," but it is sufficient to say that the comedy is dainty and sparkling, and there is no reason why "The Amazons" should not make a decided hit on this, its second visit, as on its first...
...country. The Play is Molieere's version of the Phormio of Terence. The main features of the old comedy have been retained, but more life and movement have been added. Moliere's play also has far more of the modern ideas and situations than Phormio. The characters and the plot are as follows: Argante and Geronte are two old men. Octave and Leandre are two young fellows; Octave is the son of Argante and Leandre of Geronte. Zerbinette and Hyacinthe are two young girls. The first was captured when very little by gypsies and brought up by them...
...Wind" at the Columbia, and it is a remarkable work. It ran for two hundred nights at the Empire, New York, all summer in Chicago, and for quite a season in London. "Sowing the Wind" is said to be the best play Sydney Grundy has yet written. Its plot is simple and unhampered by extraneous incident. Its development is direct and logical and its treatment is original. The language is full of grace and precision and the author has handled a necessarily dangerous subject with delicacy and finesse, yet with distinctness and force that unite to give great strength...
...4tThe Columbia Theatre will present this week Mr. Harry Lacy in the new play, "The Man from the West." This is a finely woven, well-worked plot with a story of absorbing interest. Each character in the play is of a nature that requires an especially clever actor to properly delineate it, and to this end the supporting company is particularly strong, the role's fitting each as if written for him. Mr. Lacy will have support of the following well-known people: Arthur Eliot, Payton Gibbs, Dore Davidson, Ernest Willard, J. E. Donnelly, Morrell Beane, Edward Maas, James Dunham...