Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...best things in the number are the five literary essays which are quite up to the former standards; not so broadly human, kindly, but keener and more exacting, perhaps a little intolerant. The four men who discuss Dowson, Poetic Drama and The Poet have expressed, very professionally, attitudes rather individual. Harrison's "Dowson" takes a fling at the old heresy that the morals of a genius do not matter, even while he has a little sympathy for the genius...
...this number that they must like the art of criticism. The opening article of the issue treats with a sane discrimination, "The Spring Plays of the Harvard Dramatic Club." It is said that there will be no dramatic criticism worthy of the name in America until we have a drama equally worthy. It has become a byword that the dramatic-courses at Cambridge are accomplishing one of these ends; and this piece of criticism signed "C. B." is an encouraging token that the critical faculty is finding its development side by side with the creative. Later in the number Richard...
Nothing could better disprove the assertion that drama is essentially literature than does the long pantomime so effectively staged by Reinhardt and so vividly acted by his German performers with skilful use of the unfamiliar medium of gesture and facial expression...
...interesting flashlight of the lowly in their more exalted moods. The undergraduate of a few years ago clung to evening clothes when he dipped into make-believe. The mucker by the subway's brim, a stupid mucker was to him. Then Mr. Sheldon proved that the mucker might be drama, and after him--the deluge. The action of "Kid" passes in a subway station represented by an admirable back drop new in the club's repertoire. The lines of this human little piece are not always successful, the lingo of the streets is dragged in, but under...
...Classical Conference. "Insanity in the Drama of Sophocles and Shakespere," by Mr. H. C. Kittredge. "Some Notes on Domestic Irony in Sophocles," by Mr. G. G. Sedgewick. "New Fragments of Cynic Poetry," by Professor H. W. Smyth, in Harvard...