Word: autolycus
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Ellis Rabb's loyal counsellor Camillo, Richard Waring's King Polixenes, and Earle Hyman's rogue Autolycus are all superlative portrayals. These three actors are the finest classical speakers in the company, and they all are ever careful about how they use their bodies. Autolycus, an ingratiatingly light-fingered jack-of-no-trades, is a wonderful creation without a counterpart elsewhere in literature. And Hyman, in and out of disguise as well as in and out of other people's pockets, makes the most of him, with his funny figure-4 stances, his weatherbeaten hat and purple beard...
...professor of English have two books each on the list. "The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century" is the title of one of Haskins' volumes on Mediaeval history. His other work is a second edition of his "Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science." Rollins edits the "The Pack of Autolycus", a collection of 17th century ballads by Anthony Wood, and A Paradise of Dainty Devices", a resurrection of a collection of Elizabethan verse compiled by Richard and Edwards...
Professor Hydere E. Rollins '16, who received his professorship in English last spring, its publishing two collections of old English ballads. "The Pack of Autolycus" is the first of these, and the second has the alluring title "The Paradise of Dainty Devices". Rollins is a regular contributor to the University Press. Last year at this time appeared his "A Geergeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions", a volume of late sixteenth century songs, a reprint of a delightful anthology of popular songs of that period...
...hard to picture such a cataclysm yet stranger things than the metamorphosis of a cigarette have occurred since first "this giddy globe" began its eternal spinning. Russia is determined in all its reforms and humanity is very like Autolycus in its picking up of "unconsidered trifies". It may even come to enjoy the new status of uicotine, and discourse as light-heartedly, or as earnestly, upon it as upon the old. Another Ben may be jailed. And the value of silver ltuings proven true when, in order to instill nourishment into the o'er-watched student, her ladyship...