Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Webster's plays, the best is "The Duchess of Malfi," dealing with crimes and horrors, as do all his others. He is constantly introducing all manner of unhappiness brought about by terrible means, and the crimes which his characters do not commit might be regarded as not worth committing; but the play, for all its hideousness, is redeemed by the imagination and poetry it contains, Webster does not excel in his plots and characters, but his dramatic situations are very effective, and once seen are not soon to be forgotten...
...Copeland will speak this evening on Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, Ford, and other Elizabethan dramatists. The lecture-which will be an attempt to compare Shakespeare with lesser Elizabethans-will include comment on performances, an anecdote or two of well-known players, and reading from "Macbeth," "The Duchess of Malfi," and a "Woman Killed with Kindness...
Lecture. Shakespeare briefly compared with other Elizabethan Dramatists. Readings from "Macbeth," "The Duchess of Malfi," and "A Woman Killed with Kindness." Mr. Copeland. Sever...
...Selection, "La Grande Duchess," Offenbach...
...both affirmative speakers had to speak extemporaneously, L. Hall, '92, opened the debate for the negative. He stated that the country could not get Mr. Hill's views on the questions before the public, and devoted a good deal of time to detailing Hill's conduct in the Duchess Country senatorial election case...