Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Shakspere Tercentenary which is appropriate and adequate. In spite of the fact that a Chicago judge has solemnly ruled that Bacon wrote Shakspere, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson's three performances of "Hamlet" in Sanders. Theatre have aroused an interest in the University such as no event in the drama has aroused for some years. In fact, it is comforting to have the mooted question forever disposed of, if only the higher court does not rule that the question does not come within its jurisdiction...
...Jonson's "Silent Woman," reproduced in 1903 for the performance of "Twelfth Night" by Maude Adams. On account of the elaborateness of the preparations, the talent of the actor, and the impressiveness of the occasion this production of "Hamlet" is the most important event of several years in drama at Harvard...
...members of the above company are going to stage Mr. William Gillette's famous war drama, 'Held by the Enemy,' at Brattle Hall, Cambridge, on the evenings of April 27 and 28 at 8 o'clock...
...Group I: English 6, English Composition, will be a new full course given by Mr. Pier. French 24 hf., Investigation of Special Topics in the French Drama of the Nineteenth Century, will be omitted. Italian 2, Italian Literature of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, will not be given next year. Spanish 5, Spanish Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries will be given...
...Cercle Francais for the first time in its history will undertake a spring production, which will be presented in Boston probably on May 8 or 9. The piece selected is a two-act war drama, "Servir," by Henri Lavedan. The play was first produced in Paris in 1913 at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and, with the foremost of modern French actors, M. Guitry, in the chief role, scored a great success. It was written during the trouble between France and Morocco, and shows the struggle between a militarist father of the old school and a pacifist son with modern ideas...