Word: andronicus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fascinates critics and has lured them into endless mazes of debate. One thing is clear, however: "The Merchant of Venice" is no anti-Semitic document; Shakespeare was not attacking the Jewish people when he gave Shylock the villain's role. If so, he was attaching the Moors in "Titus Andronicus", the Spaniards in "Much Ado", the Italians in "Cymbeline", the Viennese in "Measure for Measure", the Danes in "Hamlet", the Britons in "King Lear", the Scots in "Macbeth", and the English in "Richard the Third...
...Titus Andronicus: " . . .Distaste for horrors ought not to make one regardless of the skillful construction of the play, of its dramatic power, and of the magnificence of many portical passages. With all its faults, it is far beyond the abilities of either Peele or Greene. Shakespeare must have the credit as well as the discredit of its authorship...
...Titus Andronicus. Of thrifty French millers this is anything but true. They wot of every gallon and rush to law for their rights. Last week the Miller of Denan near Lille, all witting M. Doisy, won his 25-year-old suit against the French State for water which has not flowed over his mill since 1908. Though the State will appeal, it was ordered last week to pay costs, plus 50,000 francs for experts' fees, 500,000 for damages and 700,000 francs interest on these damages since 1911 to Miller Doisy who based his claim...
...Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet," Professor Murray, Harvard...
Among the items, once the property of bewhiskered, un-Big Businesslike Mr. Folger, are: the only known copy of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's works; a copy of Titus Andronicus published in 1594; many an early quarto; one of the three existing copies of the second edition of Hamlet* Amherst's Board of Trustees will administer the $10,000,000 fund, for which service the college will receive $250,000. When the Memorial is completed. Amherst's trustees will take whatever steps seem necessary to finance Shakespearean investigation and disseminate knowledge of Shakespeare...