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English 1 attempts to give the field some cohesion but is far too compressed and intensive for most to gain more than a superficial view. English 7 and 25, both good courses, cover American literature and Elizabethan-Jacobean century drama in a more detailed and effective manner. Other courses vary from slightly less than good to slightly less than adequate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English | 4/18/1947 | See Source »

They were not being capricious. Not only is Volpone Wolfit's liveliest production, and Volpone his lustiest role, but the play itself is one of the world's masterpieces of sardonic comedy. Its Elizabethan author managed to make it both a scalding comment on human avarice and a high-spirited entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Shakespeare Outfoxed | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Garbo a letter; it came back stamped "Refused." The local probate judge estimated that lonely Hermit Donne was worth about $20,000. Postscript to the will: "If Greta Garbo becomes my wife, then it goes to Greta Lovisa Donne." One neighbor firmly believed that Donne was a descendant of Elizabethan Poet John Donne ("I must love her that loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...Jonson's "Bartholomew Faire," an unexpurgated tale of mores and manners in Elizabethan England, is now in rehearsal for the annual Eliot House Christmas party next Wednesday night. Ted Allegretti '47 serves as director of the cast of 25 student thespians and three faculty members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dances, Plays, Punch Usher in House-Wide Christmas Festivities | 12/12/1946 | See Source »

...Author. Dylan (rhymes with villain, and is Welsh for "tide") Thomas was born in Swansea, South Wales. He covers his brownish, Byronic curls with a trilby and sports baggy tweeds, green shirts, Paisley ties. Short, cherubic, with fleshy lips and snub nose, he resembles more the robust, hard-drinking Elizabethan type of poet than the common hungry wolverine species. Thomas lives with his wife and two children in Oxford, goes up to London a few times a week, where he works as BBC scriptwriter and poetry reader (he is scheduled to read the title-role in his friend Poet Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passionate Pilgrim | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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