Word: 24a
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closeted, academic studies in Harry Widener's book-stacked shrine cannot convey the language, structure, and force of Sophoeles and Shakespeare better than the simplest kind of theatrical presentation. "Hamlet," produced this summer by William West '49 and company, in Professor F. O. Matthiessen's Shakespearean Tragedy (English 24a) dramatized the possibilities of presenting entertaining theatre while achieving scholarly purpose. Happily, the idea has become contagious...
...group of actors recruited mainly from Professor Francis O. Matthiessen's English 24a class will try to alleviate reading period blues this afternoon with a radio-type production of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at no cost to the flattened wallets of the spectators. Curtain time is 1:30 o'clock...
...Thursday afternoon oral readings of Shakespeare in English 24a, William A. West '49, a member of the class and of the Harvard Dramatic Club, has evolved the idea of staging a radio-type reading of "Hamlet" in Sanders Theater...
Assisting in the production, to be staged at 1:30 o'clock on August 23 without scenery or costumes, will be some members of the English 24a (Shakespearean Tragedy) class and other University students who will read "Hamlet" in radio studio style...
Radcliffe enrollment figures this summer show a trend toward English reading courses, with a secondary preference for Social Relations. Statistics Wednesday placed Comparative Literature 65, Proust, Joyce, and Mann, in the lead with 17 'Cliffedwellers in tow, while English 24a, Shakespearean tragedy, was a close second with...