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...Bard of Housewifery...
...they chant ominously through the Vermeule translations so beloved to Gen Ed and, occasionally, when they forget they are in a ritual drama and stop trying to sound like an unearthly shaman or the Delphic priestess, their speech becomes intelligible, and they show us "just how modern the old bard really was." At least I think their interpretation follows certain simple but "classic" lines: Euripides mocks the old religious motifs that Aeschylus so deeply felt, ergo he was an atheist rebelling against the pious establishment. The Loeb production seems to follow this interpretation or, shall I say, to adopt...
Declaring that "the field of Shakesperian nomenclature is wide open, and affords an inviting pasture to browse in," Harry Levin '33, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, yesterday afternoon meandered through several hundred puns and allusions he finds in the names of the Bard's characters...
...Like the Bard, pre-Bach music is not to be forgotten. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries-Thomas Morley, William Byrd, Tobias Hume, John Wilbye, John Dowland-Pro Musica shook the dust off a score of Elizabethan madrigals and lute songs, embellishing the rarefied melodies with a rhythmic liveliness and delicate twining of voices and instruments to produce, in Shakespeare's words, "sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not."-See Music, The Ancient's Mariner...
Tasty Contract. Elizabethan literature roils with legalisms-Jonson's plays are filled with far more legalese than Shakespeare's-but the Bard's characters have as effective counsel as any. Henry IVs plotters do not just plan to split their loot (the realm); like law clerks, they aver that "our indentures tripartite are drawn" and "sealed interchangeably." In Sonnet 35, the poet acts against himself as a friend's defender: "Thy adverse party is thy advocate." In Sonnet 46, a fair lady is partitioned-her lover's heart the plaintiff, his eye the defendant...