Word: elizabethans
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...bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to hatch out a more personal and better world, the Muse turned from goddess to angel-like Dante's Beatrice, who spoke to him from heaven. But with the Renaissance, poets found their angels nearer home and less angelic: in Elizabethan times, on the streets and in the Court; in the 18th Century, in the boudoir or the salon; among the Romantics, anywhere outdoors. But whether divine, semi-divine or human, the Muse was always a woman...
Capping off he latest series of theatricals by clubs and fraternities, the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will continue its line of Elizabethan revivals with "Paul Pry" this Friday and Saturday...
...thundering against Israel's war of conquest had tremendous timeliness. It might have tremendous usefulness today if it could be produced in Fascist countries. But simply as a play it is ponderous, labored, rhetorical. For the glow of Biblical diction it substitutes "Whither away?" and other pidgin Elizabethan. For the intensity of an ancient people, it substitutes stage mobs who jabber and shriek. Music caterwauls off stage. Puffed-up actors recite puffed-up dialogue. Around a table covered with brass pitchers and pottery the King and his counsellors gather, looking like Armenians about to polish off some shish kebab...
Sever plays the part of Mr. Puff, a playwright; Palmer Baker '39 and Vernon Hodges '34 are cast as Mr. Sneer and Mr. Dangle, critics who accompany Puff to the dress rehearsal of his Elizabethan verse tragedy called "The Spanish Armada." Miss Spencer is Tilburina, the English heroine of the play under rehearsal, and John Barnard '39 is her faithful Spanish lover, Don Whiskerandes...
Gloriana (by Ferdinand Bruckner) is about Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon. Robert Cecil, Philip II of Spain, Northumberland. Mountjoy and many another Elizabethan. It makes all of them out dull people...