Word: antipholuses
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...regular nine o'clock class over, he dawdles in the Farnsworth Room awhile, stops at the shelves that hold the priceless Arden Shakespeare and picks out "The Comedy of Errors". (His tutor played Antipholus of Ephesus in an amateur production of it once.) The Vagabond noses through half of the "Comedy" and compares it with the Elizabethan translation of Plautus's "Menochmi" (or "The Two Menechmuses' as some Elizabethans called it) which Shakespeare used in his play. The "Menochmi" is reprinted in Appendix B of the Arden edition. The Vagabond, if he had the money, would buy the Arden Shakespeare...
...Greek and Latin two prizes of fifty dollars each are offered to undergraduates. One is for a translation into Attic Greek of the passage in Lamb's Tales from Shakespere, "The Comedy of Errors," from the words "When Antipholus of Syracuse had sent Dromio away," through the words, "had delivered to the other Antipholus." The Latin translation is the passage in Motley's, "Rise of the Dutch Republic," Historical Introduction, III and IV, from the words, "Gaul being thus pacified," through the words, "Austrian property...
...than "As You Like It," showed the uniform strength of the company. Mr. Ben Greet and Mr. C. Rann Kennedy the two Dromios, showed unusual appreciation and restraint, avoiding the buffoonery so often substituted for the humor of their lines. A nice discrimination was noticeable between the impersonation of Antipholus the Ephesian and Antipholus of Syracuse. A real difference in attitude, the difference between native citizen and stranger, stood out clearly in both characters throughout the tangles of mistaken identity...
...Adriana," wife to Antipholus of Ephesus, Miss Matthison repeated her success of the afternoon in a part as different from that of "Rosalind" as could well be found in comedy. That the latter was better suited to her there can be little doubt; yet the courage and naturalness with which she carried through the stormy scene with her supposed husband has seldom been equalled. Even more striking was the depth and purity of her voice, which, without apparent effort, easily reached the entire audience. In her lines, as in Mr. Greet's, the rhythm of the words was retained without...
Angelo, a goldsmith, Robert S. PigottBalthazar, a merchant, R.H. SmileyPinch, a schoolmaster, B.A. FieldOfficer, Frank McEnteeLuce, a servant, H. GastonAemilia, wife to Aegeon, an abbess of Ephesus, Millicent McLaughlinAdriana, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus, Edith Wynne MatthisonLuciana, her sister, Emily TaylorDiana, Dorothy Mahome