Word: andronicus
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...Eliot House Drama Group yesterday announced Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus as its spring production. The play, which is Shakespeare's earliest tragedy, will be directed by Daniel Seiznick and Roger Graef, and produced by John Elliott and Eugene Pell...
Cleland's success with laymen is rooted in his respect for them. He urges his students to remember Paul's words about Andronicus and Junia: "They were in Christ before me." When ministers find in their parishes "the old Christians of both sexes, who gave themselves to Christ and to his God before we did," he advises, "sit at their feet . . . ask them to pray with you and for you; give thanks to God that they are not only your flock but also your shepherds . . . Their name is legion, and they come from all classes and walks...
...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...