Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Henry James, in his brief biography of Hawthorne, has lamented the bleakness and restriction of the New England environment, and has implied that richer and more complex surroundings and a more diversified experience of the world, would have strengthened the romancer's; genius in some of its most important elements. On the contrary, said Mr. Copeland, what could be more fortunate for a writer of romances, as distinguished from solidly founded novels of contemporary life, than a single and definite tradition, a homogeneous descent, and an imaginative sympathy with the bleak but stimulating past of his own country...
...with the passion of the scene. Notwithstanding her achievements as Brunnhilda, as Medea, as Lady Macbeth, and as Queen Katharine; probably her most memorable contribution to the history of the stage is the double character of Lady Deadlock and the French maid Hortense in the adaptation of Dickens's Bleak House...
...play in which action is the predominant feature. The plots and conspiracies; the play within a play; Hamlet's journey to England and return; the madness of Orphelia; all are full of action, and form a potent attraction for the popular mind. Throughout the play there is a bleak, cold humor, which never fails to amuse an audience. Hamlet himself is thoughtful and philosophic. With his friends he is pathetic, with his enemies bitterly humorous, and eloquent. He is an idealist in the strict sense of the word, a dilitante, and utterly unfit for the terrible task imposed upon...
Lecture. Thackeray and Dickens - A Contrast. With Reading from the novels, and Brief Comment upon performances of "Bleak House," "Dombey and Son," and the "Holly Tree Inn." Mr. Copeland. Sever...
...FRIDAY.Lecture. Thackeray and Dickens - A Contrast. With Reading from the novels, and Brief Comment upon performances of "Bleak House," "Dombey and Son," and the "Holly Tree Inn." Mr. Copeland. Sever...