Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cast, in order of appearance, is as follows: Simeon Boodle, rancher, hopeful but tired, J. P. Bowditch '05 Mrs. Boodle, Simeon's better and ruling half, R. Lane '04 David Plumb, rancher, with tragic inclinations, C. A. Shea '04 Elizabeth Boodle, daughter of Simeon, G. Lawton '04 Roger Fairfax, the pride of Bonanza, S. A. Welldon '04 Mr. Moppet, proprietor and manager of White Isle Lodge, G. F. Tyler '05 Minnie Moppet, his daughter, W. P. Sanger '05 Augustus Grenville of London, G. O. Winston '05 Duchess Marietta Chinolla, of Italy, M. Tilden '05 Fritz. David's unhappy companion...
...poor. "The Play" is an elaborately constructed rack whereon are hung a few, sometimes effective jokes. "The Adventure of the Young man and the Spasmodic Lady" and "The Curious History of a Selfish Man" are immature and crude: one is exaggerated attempt at farce, the other a sort of tragic sketch handled without skill. "The Three Worlds" ruins by a most clumsy climax a sketch of power...
...Conception of Art;" 2. "Greek Myths of Which the Sole Evidence is in Works of Art;" 3. "The Part Taken by Women in Greek Culture;" 4. "Greek Armor with Especial Reference to the Form and Ornamentation of the Helmet;" 5. "The Influence of Greek Art on Greek Lyric and Tragic Poets...
...narrative. The first is a trifle squalid, perhaps, and is a not altogether new idea, but is most skillfully put together, rapid and full of vivid color and incident. The second has a distinct Cambridge atmosphere, is convincing in spite of apparent improbability, and but for the somewhat unjustified tragic ending, is very well written...
...danced and sang rude songs. Soon the subject broadened into other fields and the dramatic element increased at the expense of the choral element. But the conservation of the stage and perhaps of the priests of Dionysus preserved in the satyr play an interesting memorial of earlier days. Each tragic poet presented at the feast of the patron-god four plays; the last of these was the satyr play, which was really neither tragedy nor comedy, but a tragedy of the old type with all the rudeness and boisterousness of earlier times. Such a play is the Cyclops, the subject...