Word: dramatist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious that "The Case for Tragedy" does not once mention either of the modern playwrights who might he considered tragic dramatists of serious stature: Tchekor and Synge. It is curious and unfortunate, for Tchekor at least would have given some support to Mr. Harris' thesis. But the work of both of them might have suggested that the possibility of tragic drama today is a problem for the isolated dramatist to solve in creation, not for the literary critic with a special theory to plead...
...word, giving a whole town to slaughter, and yet celebrate the power of death in a peroration of romantic fervor. Marston was a satirist of brutal and unscrupulous force, who saw the inside of a London jail before retiring to the ruminative dullness of a provincial pastorage. The dramatist who celebrated a ruinous love in Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes of the Iliad. And the Virgin Queen herself, in the midst of devious intriguing with a half-hostile, half amorous Europe, while cursing her courtiers and badgering her maids-in-waiting, could turn her hand...
...John Gallishaw, soldier, instructor, and author, will speak tonight at 8 o'clock in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum on "Problems Peculiar to the Dramatist." Mr. Gallishaw comes to Harvard under the auspices of the 47 Club of which Miss Alberta Roach is president...
William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet and dramatist, will be the guest of the members of Leverett House at luncheon in the House dining hall at one o'clock on Saturday, December 10th. Following the lunch Mr. Yeats will meet and talk with some of the students and their friends, who are interested in discussing his works...
Clayton Hamilton, dramatist and critic, will speak tonight at 8 o'clock in Harvard 6. Mr. Hamilton is chairman of the Pulitzer Prize jury, which awards a prize to the best American play every year. The critic has had a varied career, having started as an instructor at Columbia University upon graduation from college. The Dramatic Club is sponsoring the lecture...