Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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When the new Medical School was planned, it was intended eventually to group around the buildings numerous affiliated hospitals. Accordingly, the Corporation has made offers to various large hospitals of parts of the 26-acre plot belonging to the University with the result that at present, three institutions, the Brigham Hospital, the Children's Hospital and the Infants' Hospital, are prepared to avail themselves of these opportunities. Plans for the buildings are being drawn and work will be begun as soon as possible...
...mechanical appliances of modern theatres were known in the days of Shakespeare. Although the stages were bare and were equipped with but little scenery, this very simplicity made the conditions for the dramatist nearly perfect, for everything could be subordinated to the development of a perfect plot...
Yesterday afternoon Professor H. W. Smyth '78 of the Greek Department, who is one of the three professors in charge of the Greek Play, gave a lecture on "The Agamemnon of Aeschylus." After sketching the plot of the drama and outlining the dramatic characteristics of the poet, and of the time in which the play was written, Professor Smyth read a number of selections from Professor Goodwin's translation and criticised the important dramatis personae...
...father--these form the tale of the house of Agamemnon. Of this line the most tragic figure is Agamemnon, who slew his daughter as a sacrifice, and, upon his triumphal return from the Trojan war, was ignominiously butchered by his faithless queen. Such, in short, is the plot...
...first 800 verses of Aeschylus' poem, most of them in the form of choral odes, make a kind of moral prologue. It may sometimes seem to us that the plot does not advance with sufficient rapidity; at other moments the author seems to bridge over the past and present, disregarding the unity of time. He makes Agamemnon appear at home the morning after Troy was captured. This, Dr. Verrall and other critics consider a monstrous heresy in regrad to unity. But the sheer length of the choral odes creates a sense of the passage of time, so that no incongruity...