Word: elizabethan
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...introduction to this production of the "Silent Woman," Mr. Baker will give a lecture Thursday, March 14 at 4.30 p. m., on "The Elizabethan Method of Producing a Play...
...production of this play is successful, it is possible that some Elizabethan play will be given next year under the direction of the Department of English, in which the parts will be taken by college...
...London theatre. Mr. Sargent's company gave one performance of the "Silent Woman" in New York recently, but there was no such attempt at an elaborate reproduction of the old setting. If the play is successfully given, it will be the first accurate revival of an Elizabethan play, Shakespeare excepted, that has ever been seen in this country...
...poetical simplicity. One may say the same of the simple passages in Shakespeare; they are perfect; their simplicity being a poetical simplicity. They are the golden, easeful, crowning moments of a manner which is always pitched in another key from that of prose, a manner changed and heightened; the Elizabethan style, regnant in most of our dramatic poetry to this day, is mainly the continuation of this manner of Shakespeare's. It was a manner much more turbid and strewn with blemishes than the manner of Pindar, Dante, or Milton; often it was detestable; but it owed its existence...
...building, which is erected on the site formerly occupied by the Willard house, at the entrance to Soldiers Field, is of the Elizabethan style of architecture, and the exterior will be finished in stained shingles...