Word: boyesen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seldom that the newspapers get a chance to criticize a play written by a college professor, and when such a chance is given the most is made of it. This has been the case with the play of Prof. H. H. Boyesen, of Columbia. The fact that Prof. Boyesen, who is already well known in literature, should have ventured to write a play, seems to have been taker as a perfectly good excuse for all sorts of personal criticism of the author. Most of the criticisms of the play have been very favorable, whatever the critics may have said...
...result, to say the least of it, is not agreeable. Our dramatists, counting them together, are a poor lot. One must turn to France to find a contemporary dramatist of the right kind. Augier, who is a master of plays, a thinker, and a master of style. Mr. Boyesen has been known to our public during several years, as an author-as a novelist, poet, and critic. It may fairly be said that he is an American author, though he is a Norwegian. His romances and stories have exhibited a sensitive mind, an observant sight, and bright fancy. "Gunnar...
...congratulate Prof. Boyesen on the success of his play, and bespeak for it a long run. That the stage is a legitimate and profitable field for the pens of the literary men of our time and country cannot be doubted, and any play, with real literary merit, as well as the merit of action, tends to raise the tone of the stage and thereby benefits society...
...Alpine Roses," Professor Boyesen's new play has met with great success in New York...
...play entitle "The Alpine Rose," by Prof. H. H. Boyesen, formerly of Cornell, now at Columbia, will shortly be brought out at Madison Square Theatre...