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...Lawrence, one of the greatest living authorities on the English drama from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, is offering for the first half year English 38 and English 15, two courses dealing with the early stage. In English 38, Mr. Lawrence takes up the English theatre in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dealing in detail with the structure, the public, and the players of the stage during this period. English 15, which is primarily for graduates, deals with studies and problems in the history of the theatre at this time...
Among the subjects considered in English 15 will be the Inn yard performances and their influence on English dramaturgy, the physical conditions of the early public theatres, the origin and characteristic of the Elizabethan "private" playhouse, the influence of the "decor simultane" on early court staging, the principles of early dramatic collaboration and stage lighting. Mr. Lawrence will then take up its rise and progress from 1590 to 1800, the principles of early prompt-book making, early playgoing customs, the mystery of the Restoration procenian doors, and the characteristics of Elizabethan acting...
...when he meets Berlenbach . . ." said McTigue's adherents later that evening, fortifying themselves against the dampness and their own depression in the various bars and blind tigers of middle Manhattan, "when he meets this ham Berlenbach. . ." It was fashionable to finish the sentence with a flow of Elizabethan verbiage, accompanied by gestures illustrating the physical distress which would afflict The Astoria Assassin when subjected to violence on the part of Slattery...
...labored breathing and frequent potations of ice-water that the end is not far off. Then it is that he truly comes into his own. His racquet twangs like an embowered guitar; his serve crashes over with the sonorous finality of the couplet concluding a soliloquy in an Elizabethan play. Next day he reads...
...Lawrence is perhaps the most distinguished living authority upon the history of the English stage from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration," declared Dean Lowes speaking of Mr. Lawrence's work and field. "He has written on 'The Life of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Tragedian,' and on other theatrical figures, his chief volume being 'The Elizabethan Playhouse and other Studies,' published in 1912 and 1913. Since then important papers of his have appeared in the Modern Language Review, Studies in Philology, the Fortnightly Review, and in a considerable number of other periodicals. Mr. Lawrence has no academic position...