Word: euripidean
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...compatible within the house of tragedy. The zenith of the neoclassic movement was Racine, and Steiner makes a powerful case for him as the last bona fide playwright of tragedy. The fact remains that Racine's greatest play, Phedre, draws half its impact from the Greek myth and Euripidean play on which it is based...
...wife works havoc with the menfolk. The Greek professor (who is Author Linklater disguised in a tunic) orates at length on life, love and Labor; the poachers cast their nocturnal nets in the moorland stream. Sluggish Laxdale plunges into a 'hubbub of mingled rage, passion, skulduggery and Euripidean oratory...
...Eliot, Jr., '13, a grandson of President Eliot, has charge of the production. Mr. Eliot is a player in the Bandbox Theatre, New York, and has had considerable experience in the production of Euripidean tragedies in Indianapolis, which fit him for this undertaking. The scenery and costumes were designed by Mr. C. Raymond Johnson, art director of the Little Theatre, of Chicago...
...these troubled days the production of one of the first "war plays" ever written, the "Trojan Women" of Euripides, is an especially timely one. Mr. Granville Barker, in his presentation of the great Euripidean drama, held in the Stadium yesterday afternoon, achieved a remarkable success. As Professor Gilbert Murray, the translator of the original text, says: "judged by common standards the 'Trojan Women' is far from a perfect play; it is scarcely even a good play," but it must be admitted that as a dramatic spectacle it is an impressive production. What little plot there is, is soon lost sight...