Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this news is not so startling. The Bible, our own American History, and countless "great stories" have already been dramatized for the films; it is only natural--to use a strangely familiar phrase--that the legitimate stage should have its fling. "G. B. S." has ventured to offer an epic of his own for stage production; why not Keith, or Loew--or even Ziegfeld? The blind poet is in vaudeville--surely a place can be found for the "morning-star" of English poetry in musical comedy; the Wife of Bath has possibilities. Not to mention the enormous advantage all this...
Classic literature is full of parody. The Batrachomyomachia--"Battle of the Frogs and Mice"-- a travesty of the heroic epic, was long attributed to Homer, and certainly is as old as the fifth century before Christ. Aristophanes mimicked Euripides with side splitting and enraging effectiveness. Cervantes' Don Quixote is sheer parody. In our own language we have a great volume of comic imitation. Shakespeare parodied and was parodied. Milton's ponderous solemnity was the subject of endless ribald travesty in his own momentous metre. Shelley did not shame to lampoon dear old Wordsworth...
...Century Company). And they are things about which it is enjoyable to read and learn. The story concerns one Charlotte Baird and her fight against her environment not so much to improve the environment as to keep it from touching her. The fight is a great one, an epic struggle in fact, and could be read with considerable awe if Miss Barrett only could prevent her heroine so continually suffering such attacks as a "surge of tears around the heart...
...were and Eli, we would organized of Ku Klux party and ride one Mead Minnegeorde on a rail. Certainly no one has written a more ridiculous satire of Yale than this young man. Harvard men must not miss this epic of Siwash, Conn. "The Big Year" (Pulnam's) if it came from Cambridge, would be screamingly funny. As New Have propagands, it is a joke, all right, but not, we fear, by inteution...
...series of Sanders Theatre concerts by--the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be given this evening at 8 o'clock. The last in the series will be given on April 28. Antonio Gerardi will be the only soloist in the program, which is as follows: Scotch Symphony, Mendelssohn Epic Poem Vassilenko Spanish Symphony, Lalo (For violin and orchestra.) Soloist, Antonio Gerardi...