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...English 123," "Selected Plays of Shakespeare," Professor Harry Levin becomes Elizabethan actor and director. His recitation and analysis of six of the Bard's plays is usually a smash hit with the ground lings assembled in New Lecture-on-Kirkland...
...Marlowe); "There is my dagger" (Shakespeare). Nor does it ever occur to him that certain elemental ideas have struck almost every poet who ever lived, e.g., that rain may be described as Heaven's weeping, that fast-beating hearts are like hammer blows, that lovers long before the Elizabethan Age had decided that even the sunniest day was a pain in the neck compared with a long, dark night...
...orthodox Shakespearean will be moved by Author Hoffman to abandon his established belief-that Christopher Marlowe was the great pioneer who explored the unknown continent of Elizabethan drama, and that William Shakespeare, following after, bulldozed and occupied that realm with a power and majesty far beyond the strength of his doughty predecessor. Some of Author Hoffman's parallelisms are interesting contributions to Shakespearean scholarship. For the rest. The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare" confirms but one thing-that profound snobbery is the main weakness of all anti-Shakespeareans. Deep-rooted in all Baconians, Oxonians, Marlovians, of every...
...melodrama and fancy-dress intrigues and ushered in a drama of photographic realism and socially significant content directed at an audience of intellectuals. Like any fresh theatrical cycle, Critic Kerr feels, the one Ibsen introduced gave new vitality to the stage of its time, but unlike the Greek or Elizabethan cycles, it reached its height in its originators, and has long since outlived its original artistic impulse: "The best new brains are feeding on dead tissue...
...trend towards the general education has been evident in recent years. There has been a consistent effort to increase the number of courses of interest to non-concentrators, such as Music 128, "Elizabethan Madrigals and Songs." In addition, there has been a departure from the traditional nucleus of basic theory courses for concentrators to allow a wider selection of courses for a major in the History and Literature of Music...