Word: aeschylus
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...church's once potent ally, religious drama. Much U. S. Protestant church drama, complained Professor Fred Eastman of Chicago Theological Seminary, is of low quality. There has been improvement in recent years. But U. S. churches must strive for results comparable to those of the religious dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; or the Canterbury Cathedral play written four years ago by John Masefield, with music by Gustav Holst...
...writings of Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, et al. In the present essay, lately (Oct. 15) delivered as a lecture at the Queen's Hall in London, John Mase field follows much the same track, defines poetry by quoting it. He is less nationalistic than Editor Squire; Shakespeare, Dante, Aeschylus and Homer are Poetry to him. His poetic license having been conferred on him by royal appointment, Laureate Masefield does not hesitate to use it. Specimens: Poetry "is best in lands of vintage and in those sunny years which have been years of good vintage."* It is "the wine...
...Greece, Martet! You must travel by way of Greece to get anywhere you're going. I believe that humanity reached its highest point there, easily, joyously. . . . There's nothing beyond Aeschylus, nothing beyond Plato, nothing beyond Socrates. . . . It's a pity there ever was such a thing as Christianity! One might have lived so well worshiping Jupiter, Mercury, all those gallant deities...
...bootleggers aren't au fait perse--? Such a pleasant vagary as this just goes to prove that even the Supreme Court, like the sorrowful heroes of Aeschylus, may have a slight dent in its armour...
...production is not a departmental one in any way. It is the fourth such presentation by the Classical Club the first, that of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex", having been given in 1876. In 1893 the "Phormio" of Terence was produced, and, in 1906, the "Agamem non" of Aeschylus. Only one performance of the "Menaechmi" will be given and that open only to members of the University...