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Among the selections on the program are four Elizabethan madrigals by Woelkos and Byrd, two works by Bach, an old English folksong arranged by Edward T. Canby 1G, and a chorus from the Handel operetta, "Admeta...
...unrelated to that of Arabic science which was magic, since the Arabs, like us, have the application of science to the exigencies of life for our goal--in other words, power over nature. Roger Bacon, as Mr. Dawson says, "seems at first sight"--so he appeared to the Elizabethan dramatist--"to belong entirely to the Arabic scientific tradition," for since he was aware of the possible misuse of science, "like the Arabs he believed that science was power and that the scientist was a wonder worker and a magician...
...type is clear and makes reading easy. Such case is further facilitated by the placing of the names of the characters above their speeches. The text has been prepared by the distinguished Elizabethan scholar. Arthur Henry Bullen...
Into this compilation during the next six years Lexicographer Baten packed a definition and discussion of every one of the 15,000 words Shakespeare ever used. The word "love" which the Elizabethan found 2,559 occasions to mention took days and days of special work. Each locality mentioned in Shakespeare's plays and poems was carefully described. A biography of each historical character was written and a sketch of the origins of each fictitious one. The Dukes of Bedford and Beaufort made particular trouble because Shakespeare referred to several without bothering to distinguish between them. Summarized were...
...atmosphere of old "Merrie England" will pervade Lowell House at the Lowell celebration on Thursday, December 13 as members of the house present "Gammer Gurton's Needle," and the house glee club, under the direction of Bartram Kelley 2G, sings a program of comic Elizabethan madrigals...