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Aristophanes's plays sparkle with jests. The humor is often broad and sometimes coarse. Whether Aristophanes wrote merely in fun or for a serious purpose is a mooted question. If he intended to bring about a reform, he made a dismal failure. Great as his talents were, he took no stock in tragedy or philosophy, but chose to exert all his energies in comedy. His efforts were well rewarded, for he still remains the greatest comic poet of all time...
...name, a caricature of something; not the inane and insane business that has usurped the name of burlesque of late years, and is really a burlesque or caricature of nothing at all. The rumor was spread abroad early in the season that the Pudding meant to do something really "serious" this time. Well, "serious" is a comparative term, and people who feared that this year's theatricals would furnish no food for laughter troubled themselves quite unnecessarily; "Proserpina" is not "serious" enough to hurt; it is about as serious as "Orphee aux Enfers." But this is quite an enormous...
...some of the principal ones have a compass of not exceeding five or six notes; then it stands to reason that all the music to be sung must necessarily be in the very simplest and most perspicuous rhythms, or the singers cannot learn it. This is really the most serious handicap of all: to forego all rhythms except those of the march, the galop or the waltz. And still the young composer has written a great deal of really charming music in "Proserpina," showing no little melodic inventiveness and even succeeding in giving some numbers a characteristic coloring by means...
...many of their traits both the novels and the shorter tales are alike. The sense of sin is the cardinal motive and the dominant quality of all Hawthorne's work. But his treatment of sin never strikes upon the conscience. He uses the conscience rather as a fantastic yet serious play ground for his genius. He is the chief American man of letters. In order to write what he did, and as he did, it was necessary to be a master of style, a genius, and an American...
Owing to the serious illness of one of the principals, who has completely lost his voice, there will be no performance of "Proserpina" tonight...