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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Great American Novel--it may be the dream of every English professor to write it. And although Thomas Mallon, a teacher at Vassar for the past nine years, would scarely call his first fictional work such a novel, he says the motivation is much the same...
Mallon says every English teacher harbors a desire to write creatively, perhaps because they are closer to their critical subject than other scholars, since they are writing about other people's writing...
Founded in 1938 by the Lowell House Music Society, the Lowell House Opera has put on a show every year since then except for seven years during World War II. Most of the past shows have been in English, and other performances have included The Threepenny Opera, The Golden Apple and The Conversion of Saint Pelagia the Harlot, an original piece written by two Harvard undergraduates...
...didn't sleep through the English 10 lecture on Restoration comedies, you may remember that William Congreve was a successful and respected playwright until his play The Way of the World failed miserably, and he retired from the stage in shame and defeat. If you watch the North House production of World, you will understand...
...spare the actors the embarrassment of printing their names, for they have obviously spent a great deal of time learning their difficult lines, though at the expense of characterization and expression in their delivery. The combination of the play's 17th century courtly language and the actors' annoying fake English accents renders the dialogue unintelligible. The performances are without energy. Decent jokes are lost to mumbled deliveries. When speaking, the actors face every direction except toward the audience. And while any actor speaks, any other actors onstage stand around awkwardly with nothing...