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Professor Kittredge then spoke on the great merites of the poem. The interest increases steadily towards the climax through a series of episodes which are true developments of the plot, not a string of disconnected adventures. The interviews between Sir Gawain and the lady are managed with great delicacy, yet with no distinct reticence. Few things, too, could have been more difficult than to conduct Sir Gawain through these adventures without making him appear ridiculous. He is pictured as modest, brave, courteous and steadfast in faith. Even King Arthur is not the shadowy phantom we usually meet with, but real...
...Girofle-Girofla" is full of fun and has a most ingenious plot capitally worked out. Don Bolero d'Alcarazas and his wife Aurore have twin daughters, Cirofle and Girofla, who are so remarkably alike that the only means of distinguishing them is by their clothes. One wears blue and the other pink. Aurore has contrived to appease two enemies by arranging a double marriage - Marasquin to marry Girofle and Mourzouk Girofla. Marasquin arrives attired for the bridal, and is informed that Mourzouk, owing to a toothache, is unable to come, and that the wedding must be postponed. But Marasquin insists...
Kidd enters, slightly under the influence of numerous potations, and has a very ludicrous scene with his wife, who does not recognize him in his piratical disguise. The whole second act is full of clever songs and dances, which have little to do with the plot...
...Taylor '95. Most of the music has been selected from various sources by Allen Wardwell '95, who has also written a waltz which will be sung in the second act. Julian I. Chamberlain '95, has composed a duet and Sherman Day '96, a waltz. A rough outline of the plot is as follows...
...Copeland began his varied list of subjects last evening with a brief critical sketch of Mr. Daly's revival of "Two Gentlemen of Verona." This play is one of the earliest, and not one of the best, of Shakespeare's works. The plot is so unreasonable, and one of the characters (Proteus by name) so preposterous, that it is easy to understand the infrequent representations of the piece. The reason for its being seldom given, however, lies more perhaps in the fact that, with the partial exception of Launce, who belongs of course to the low comedian, there...