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...eight o'clock tonight in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum, Professor Doerpfeld will deliver the last of his Archaeological lectures on the "Doric Temple." Professor Doerpfeld will illustrate his lecture with stereopticon views...
Last evening Professor Doerpfeld gave his fifth lecture in the Fogg Museum. Though the subject was the "Theatre at Athens, his lecture was in reality a contribution to our knowledge of the history and character of Greek dramatic...
...dependent on the inner arrangements of the theatre. Until recently it has been universally believed that, in the action of the Greek play, actors and chorus occupied separate parts of the theatre:- the former a narrow stage ten or twelve feet high, the latter the lower orchestra. Professor Doerpfeld maintained that this is incorrect, that, in fact, the Greek theatre had no stage at all. His arguments, richly enforced by plans and photographs upon the screen, were based in large part upon an examination of the remains of the Greek Dionysiac Theatre at Athens, the cradle, as it were...
Professor Doerpfeld then proceeded to discuss and refute various arguments adduced in support of the traditional view, namely, those based on the language of Vitruvius, on the theory that a stage was needed in order to enable the audience to see the action; and, finally, the supposed evidence of the theatre at Megalopolis and of certain pictures upon Greek vases from lower Italy. He showed that not only is the evidence of the plays themselves and also of other branches of literature in favor of the united action of actors and chorus on the same orchestral level, but that...
Tonight at eight o'clock, in the Fogg Museum, Professor Doerpfeld will deliver the fifth of his lectures on Greek Archaeology, given under the auspices of the Greek Department. His subject will be "The Theatre in Athens." The lecture will be illustrated as usual with the stereopticon...