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Professor Sprague, "The Elizabethan Stage", Harvard...
...great value are the more enduring friendships which are made, for example, in the preparation for the House play, at which the Tutors and undergraduates work day after day and then have the pleasure of seeing what their common labor has produced. This annual production of a bawdy Elizabethan play is one of the outstanding features of Eliot House and bids fair to become of more than college-wide reputation. Presented just before the Christmas holidays in the past two years, it has packed the long dining hall with audiences of over five hundred House members, professors, and guests. This...
...Elizabethan days every dramatist was a poet, every playgoer a poetry lover. But nowadays poets generally leave their Muse behind when they go to town. To most moderns, poetic drama means selfconscious, little-theatre stuff-&-nonsense. Ambitious Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador), seeing no good reason for the modern notion that Poetry is by nature a bad actor, has tried his hand at a verse-play. His first attempt. Panic, took him 16 months to write.* Playgoing readers will find it an exciting experiment, will hope Author MacLeish's example may attract some others...
...been released. The Department of English has actually challenged the Medieval picturesqueness of the prevailing arrangement and has substituted clarity and logic. Many sensitive heartstrings may quiver at the thought of corrupting English 2 into English 22; to some the progression from the Anglo-Saxon of 3a through the Elizabethan of 32 and the Alexandrian of 50b to the Georgian of 26 may spell abracadabra. Nevertheless, hoary-headed tradition must retire to its armchair when faced with a definite improvement...
Courses dealing with the second heading will be numbered from one to 89, with the following subdivisions: 1--10 survey courses, 10--19 Middle English, 20--29 Elizabethan Literature, etc., American Literature 70--79, and criticism 80--89. It is hoped that this will facilitate the addition or omission of old and new courses...