Word: elizabethans
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...already occupied him for four years. Professor Craigie, a thorough believer in the autonomy of Americanisms,* points out that "American inventiveness, coupled with the strange and rich conditions which faced pioneers on the frontier, have brought forth, in three centuries of American independence, changes in language comparable to the Elizabethan period in England...
...graduated from Amherst in 1879, Tycoon Folger divided his time between writing treatises on petroleum and monographs on Shakespeare, and making more money to buy more early Shakespeare editions. His hobby he shared with his wife. Together they amassed 25,000 rare volumes of the works of Elizabethan dramatists. Until his death the precise worth of this collection, now stored in Manhattan, was intentionally kept vague so that his reputation as a collector would not handicap him in making purchases...
...Another copy is at the Huntington Library (San Gabriel, Calif.), the third at the Elizabethan Club of Yale...
Retired. Bliss Perry, 69, onetime (1899-1909) editor of The Atlantic Monthly, professor of English at Harvard. Closing his famed "English 41" course, devoted to the history of English literature from Elizabethan times, he said: "These rambling talks have come to an end. Gentlemen, I am going to read the authors...
...result of this state of affairs is that there are many plays which would not pass the pragmatic test of filling a New York theatre with Broadway Babbits and yet are worthy of the Dramatic Club's attention. And anyone who has ever glanced over the rich fields of Elizabethan and Restoration drama knows that not one in ten of the best plays of those periods is ever seen on the professional stage today...