Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard Shakspere Club. "Dramatic Art." Mr. Henry Irving. Sanders Theatre...
...second meeting of the Art Club, last evening, Dr. William Everett of Quincy, addressed the Club in "Certain Limitations of Art in Relation to its Subjects." A work of art, Dr. Everett said, was commonly judged according to its morale, or its technique. In relation to Art, the subject of Propriety was first discussed, mainly in illustration of the Washington Monument. Dr. Everett drew attention to the fact that when the event was small, in order that it may be remembered, the monument commemorative of the event must be of great account. But that when the monument was a perfect...
...lavishness of the public does not equal its critical sense. But if it be said that the sublimity and complexity of King Lear render any representation of it necessarily inadequate, it follows that there is a fatal flaw and self contradiction at the foundation of Shakspere's art. For if his living pictures cannot be made to move across the stage in all the telling truth of their contrast and variety,- Shakspere missed his vocation. He should have written poems or novels, not plays...
Second regular meeting to-night, in Grays 19, at 8 o'clock. Address on "Some limitations of art in relation to its subjects," by Dr. William Everett of Quincy. Full attendance urgently requested...
...audience; he imitated the performances of orators, and would-be orators to perfection. In the more solid portions of his lecture, Mr. Dougherty was not so successful. His thought was good, but his delivery had the fault of its school. It was too oratorical-showing the speaker's art too perceptibly. Whenever he digressed into illustration, however, Mr. Dougherty was perfect. The audience certainly appreciated it, for Sanders rang with laughter, in a way which that staid old theatre has not witnessed since the class...