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...Elizabethan Prose...
...Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity has decided to present this year, for its ninth annual dramatic production, the Elizabethan play, "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," by Beaumont and Fletcher. This comedy has been very successfully revived several times by various colleges, and was acted some years ago by a company of professional actors in London...
...Knoblauch, while in College, figured prominently in the Cercle Francais. During the early attempts in the University in 1895 to revive the Elizabethan stage, he took successfully the part of the Orange Girl, in the audience. After his graduation Mr. Knoblauch went to London, where, with occasional returns to this country, he has occupied himself ever since as a playwright. He has recently written a play which Mr. H. B. Irving, son of the late Henry Irving, plans to present. Mr. Knoblauch will return to London shortly to make arrangements for the adaptation of a play for Yvette Guilbert...
...first, said Professor Baker, the theatres were rude platforms built in the public squares. Then they were moved to the inn-yards. The galleries around these yards gave rise to the upper stage of Elizabethan drama. Later the actors constructed theatres of their own, using the bear-baiting rings as models...
...neighbor?" The College Chapel will miss him, whither he used to repair daily to take what he liked to call his "moral bath, as needful, sir, as the other." He was the impersonation of health, vigor, and purity, moral as well as physical and intellectual. He was an Elizabethan man in his qualities and temperament: a poet, above all, of keen susceptibilities and sympathies; gifted, furthermore, with a remarkable creative power in English expression, especially in extempore speech, pungent, vivid, finding always--if sometimes he had to make it--the fit word; impetuous, generous, the soul of honor, scornful...