Word: cyclic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the Carews come to their cyclic catastrophe, involve others in business failure. Led by the little flames in the eyes of Chieftainess Hildreth, they close their mansion, departing for fights elsewhere. And Bayliss, onetime representative of the mad tribe, joins Elsa's revolt against it, settles down to work, scandal, pettiness, apparently compensated by love alone. Therefore the story is of Bayliss and Elsa, their happiness-not of the Carews who form its flaming red-&-yellow background...
...Professor G. R. Coffman G '09 of Grinnell College, and will deal first with the origin of the medieval drama in Western Europe and later with its development in England up to 1500. Important phases of the subject will be the miracle play, the liturgical play, the English cyclic play, the morality play, the interlude and the folk element in the drama of the medieval period...