Word: even
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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better or worse, certainly altogether different from any in English poetry. Now even in languages where such feet are found, most English readers very rarely render them in reading, so that comparatively few persons are really aware of the difference between the two forms of poetry. But in most of the accompanied parts of the play the music is set to the Latin measure and this makes it necessary for the speaker to follow that measure as it existed in Latin. And thus we may get approximately, at any rate, the effect of ancient classic verse. Thus the play becomes...
...English speech depends upon slurring unemphatic words and dwelling upon those more important. This tends to produce a jerky and irregular utterance not customary in other European languages. In Latin, as well as in all other languages that have quantity, the length of syllables is determined beforehand and even common speech has a measured cadence, a musical quality, to which rhetorical composition carefully attends, so that certain sequences are approved and others not. This difference of effect has until lately been almost entirely disregarded. And even now though many schools teach the proper method of utterance theoretically...
...true that all the modern nations have essentially pronounced Latin according to the sounds of their own language, but no one has departed so far from the original as the English. Others have changed a few consonantal sounds, in accordance with the usage even of the early centuries of our era, but the vowels have been preserved by them without significant change. In English, however, no sound is sufficiently preserved to be understood by an ancient Roman. It was this ultra perversion of the Roman sounds that led to the adoption of the present system. As a change was necessary...
...Roman Catholic church was then used. No Latin play has ever been given in modern times that so nearly reproduces ancient conditions as does the Phormio. It has meant an immense amount of work; hardly any of the actors had ever made a study of dramatic expression before, and, even if they had, they were confronted by problems which no actor ever faced before. To master these problems has meant, not to speak of work in private, rehearsals two, three and even six times a week from the beginning of the college year. It is the expression of hundreds...
...benches, not chairs, and slope up from around the orchestra in wedges with the stairs between. Unfortunately for the present purpose, these benches do not run to the top of the theatre in one tier. The other important difference from the ancient theatre is the permanent roof; but even with these two disadvantage, there are few modern theatres which would be so well suited to the wants of the Classical department as Sanders...