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...have been by Mr. William Stevenson or any other contemporary writer of the time, provided of course that he had an exceptionally keen sense of the ridiculous. The comedy is intensely humorous, and while few would take up the mere loss of a needle as the basis for a five-act comedy, such a loss in 1575 was far from being a trifle. At the time the play was written a steel needle was treasured as few family possessions are today, and when Gammer Gurton lost hers--the only one she possessed--the misfortune took on the importance...
...Fair Maid of the West" is a five-act comedy by Thomas Heywood and was first performed in 1617. The production is the most pretentious that the chapter has ever attempted, and in the fourteen scenes a very accurate and entertaining picture of the life of the Elizabethan period is presented...
...Medea," a five-act play, is the third member of the trilogy, "The Golden Fleece," published in 1822. It is considered by some his greatest achievement, and is certainly the best of the three plays in the trilogy. None is perhaps better suited to give an idea of Grillparzer's peculiar distinction as a dramatist than "Medea." The first two members of the trilogy, "The Guest-Friend" and "The Argonauts," are the necessary supplements of the "Medea" in order to understand fully the development of the heroine's character...
...graduates' performance last evening of the Delta Upsilon play, "The Wise Woman of Hogsdon," a five-act comedy by Thomas Heywood, was successful; indeed the play was practically carried through without a break. With one or two corrections in the groupings the performance this evening should be most effective. In consideration of the fact that the plot is not strong and that the situations are not unusually well conceived the production as a whole was excellent...
...graduates' night performance of the eighth annual Delta-Upsilon play, "The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon," a five-act comedy by Thomas Heywood, will be given in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock, before the members of the society and their guests. Admission to this performance will be by invitation only...