Word: quarrels
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Lefranc traced briefly the growth of the Renaissance movement for the education of woman. Moliere took an active part in this quarrel, as in others. His attitude, as revealed in "Les Femmes Savantes," was not opposed to the education of women, but merely to the excess of this tendency, which, as other excesses, he held up to ridicule...
...third Hyde lecture on "Moliere," delivered yesterday by Professor Abel Lefranc, the eminent authority on the literature of the French Renaissance, was devoted chiefly to a discussion of the relations of "Don Juan" to the great quarrel treated in the previous lecture and to a consideration of "Le Misanthrope...
...scene of the play is laid in Athens. The plot deals with the repudiation by Charisios of his wife Pamphile on account of a serious quarrel. Two slaves, Daos and Syriskos, bring about a reconciliation by appealing to the parents' love for their deserted child, who is identified by a ring that has once been the property of Charisios...
...last of the plays, "La Gifle," is a short and witty face, with repaid action and amusing lines. Blanch-Misseron, a deputy of the Chamber, desires to fight a duel, in order to silence the mockers who have ridiculed his passive attitude toward his adversaries. He therefore picks a quarrel with an army officer, Jules Chamberiot, who has come to the office of the ministry to file a claim for a cross of the Leghorn of Honor, but who lacks the necessary deputy's, endorsement for his petition. Blanche-Misserone agrees to endorse the solder's petition, and Chamber...
...anniversary of the formation of a "Sangerbund" in a small German town. Dr. Scheffler is greatly interested in this celebration, but his wife, Bertha, remembering his condition after the celebration of the previous year, does all she can to prevent him from attending. This leads to a quarrel, and she leaves the house to live with her uncle, Bolzau, whose home is in the suburbs. Meanwhile Scheffler's friend Hartwig, who is an intolerable talker, appears with his friend Dr. Steinkirch, for whom he wishes Scheffler to provide a lodging. But Scheffler, having just quarrelled with his wife...