Word: classics
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...estimation of Cyrano de Bergerac's place in the development of French literature, is given a careful, well balanced summary of the pre-classic period in France. Excellent reasons are advanced to prove that this staging of the play by the Cercle Francais will be its first presentation at any theatre. On the whole the author has shown pains-taking study of the authorities and excellent taste...
...Cercle Francais has decided to give this year a play of Cyrano de Bergerac's entitled "Pedant Joue." It is a farce of the pre-classic school, and is after the manner of the early Italian plays. The performances will be given during the second and third weeks in December,--three in Cambridge and two in Boston...
Romanticism brought into French literature fine sensibility and a feeling for art and for history. Its excesses and faults are due to the fact that this was a period of crisis. This was a crisis during which classic realism was developing into modern realism...
...safe to say that rooms in the Yard will regain much of their waning popularity. The present generation of Harvard men are such a comfort loving class that the classic atmosphere of the Yard is but a small consideration compared to the conveniences which seemed superfluous to their forbears. If the double attraction of comforts and classic atmosphere is offered, the old buildings will regain their wonted place in undergraduate estimation...
Romanticism was most successful in lyric poetry; naturally it was least so on the stage. Classic tragedy was dead. Shakespeare and Schiller were used as models. Mme. de Stael wrote "L'Allemagne," Stendhal wrote "Racine et Shakespeare." Victor Hugo in his "Preface de Cromwell" defined the drama as a mixture of the tragic and the comic with an historic stage setting and with out the three unities. But these are not the real signs of the romantic drama. In fact there was a style of play which was increasing in popular favor as tragedy declined; this was the melodrama. Romantic...