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Robinson is the editor of The Works of Geoffrey Chancer, the textbook used in English 115. He did his graduate work in Germany before returning to Harvard to teach. He retired...
...Georgia orphanage, "Big Fella" Mineo stoutly defends the "little fellas" from harm, sturdily resists the temptations and blandishments of a bevy of Bad Examples. In hammering out his selfless philosophy of life, Sal learns through bitter experience to reject the cynical green applesauce of an opportunistic main-chancer (Thomas Carlin), and to sneer at the diesel-crass plutocracy of a trucking tycoon (Gene Lyons), who is the orphanage's most successful alumnus...
Courses in Milton, Chancer, or Shakespeare (English 131, 115, and 123 respectively) are always good to take in most cases they are necessary to fulfill the Department's demands for three half courses in pre eighteenth century literature. The Department offers excellent writing courses, but students can only count two of these toward concentration...
...wouldn't think any intelligent person could fall for this patent fabrication, by Chancer, Shakespeare, and John Gay all make naive references to this explanation. Chancer typifies their common ignorance in his "Parliament of Foules" with the lines...
Even without a thorough grounding in the classical Chinese theatre, one feels that "Lute Song" has preserved the essential spirit of a lyrical drama with a simple, fairy tale-like atmosphere unfamiliar to must American theatre goers. The unadorned plot--a story similar to Chancer's "Patient Griselda"--remains intact through the translation and condensation into one-third the original length, as do elements of Confucian ethics and what appears to be satire of Buddhist ritual...