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Soon as he could he entered a London medical school, studying there for eight years, until in 1889 he was given a diploma as a physician, surgeon and midwife. While in medical school he initiated and edited the Mermaid Series of Elizabethan dramatists and a series of books called Contemporary Science. Later he wrote poetry and literary essays. His world reputation today, however, rests almost entirely upon his calm encyclopedic surveys of the love-life of men & women, of its aberrations, and of its relation to society...
Reviving a farce comedy from the age of rollicking Elizabethan drama, the D. U. Fraternity will present Francis Beaumont's "Knight of the Burning Pestle" Friday and Saturday nights at the Chapter House, 396 Harvard Street...
...cabalistic soothsayer lesser minds have tried to make him. Not for Kittredge a mystical analysis on the knocking on the gate in Macbeth. To him this scene was merely another instance of the Bard's incomparable use of contrast in dramatic craftsmanship, and the unravelling of the mysteries of Elizabethan language coupled with an appreciation of Shakspere's poetry was all that Kittredge attempted. He saw Shakspere as a man, writing for his Elizabethan audience the most thrilling and poetic plays he knew how, and if later critics have chosen to read more than this into the plays...
...school in New South Wales by the time he was 19. Deciding that he needed a knowledge of biology in order to understand himself and others, he studied medicine in London, began applying a scientific attitude to literary criticism, was editor of the famed Mermaid Series that first made Elizabethan drama available to the general public. Marrying in 1891, he began the first volume of his Studies in the Psychology of Sex, which was promptly suppressed as obscene. Ellis then went into voluntary exile in Morocco, wrote Affirmations and A Study of British Genius. His wife died...
...Lunts' somewhat radical notion that The Shrew needed gaiety and bounce. Accordingly, they have resurrected the possibly anachronistic "Induction," which begins the piece with a troupe of jolly players marching into a nobleman's house with drums and cymbals to beguile him for an evening. In true Elizabethan style, the tale of Petruchio and his truculent bride Katharine is interrupted from time to time while tumblers, a tenor, a troupe of midgets take the stage. Within the play itself, the Lunts have felt free to bring in any amount of extraneous horseplay that might add freshness...