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...Thus Shakespeare himself provides the reason why productions of his plays, flourishing in barns and parks beneath the stars, have become a hardy harbinger of summer. Nowadays, nearly every American is within a day's drive of some performance of the Bard. It may be spoken in Elizabethan English or Spanish with a New York accent, played by a professional repertory group or a traveling troupe, mounted in an authentic replica of the 16th century Globe Theatre or on a mobile stage truck...
...submit that her attitude and judicial perspective is one that has been with us since well before the passage of the Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601. Those administrators, too, looked down upon the "unworthy poor" from their "holier than thou" positions and decided that only their standards could possibly be "right and proper." It seems to me that it is about time we tried something...
Dean Ford yesterday announced the appointments of Larry D. Benson, a and Allston Burr Senior Tutor in House; Walter J. Kaiser '54, a scholar in comparative literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods; and Daniel Seltzer, a specialist in Elizabethan Drama who will also serve as associate director of the Loeb Drama Center...
Kaiser, who specializes in Elizabethan and Jacobean prose and poetry, is on a of absence this year in Rome as an American Council of Learned Societies...
Seltzer has edited several Elizabethan and is working on a book on Elizabethan acting styles...