Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very glad to see that the Greek play "Electra," which was given in Boston on Thursday afternoon, will be given in Sanders Theatre next Wednesday evening. This will furnish a rare opportunity for all the students and especially those interested in the study of Greek. The play will be given at the special request of the Greek Department of the University, the members of which have been very much interested in the play as given in New York and Boston. The play is said to be admirably acted and the scenery and costumes are very authentic. We need not urge...
...Sophocles will be presented in an English translation in the Sanders Theatre, on Wednesday, May 1, at 7.45 p. m., by the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, of which Messrs. F. N. Sargent and H. C. DeMille are the directors. The performance is given by invitation of the Greek department of the university. Tickets (at $1 each) will be sold to officers of the university at the University Book. store, Saturday, April 27, at 10 a. m. Each officer can purchase three...
...presentation of the Greek play "Electra," a notice of which will be found in another column, will offer a are opportunity to students of the Greek drama. The play was given recently in New York and called forth the warmest commendation of all who saw it. The interest taken in the production by the Greek professors here is a warrant of its merit. This revival of the Greek drama differs in several important particulars from that of "Oedipus" which was given in Sanders Theatre several years ago, but the changes will greatly increase the general interest. The play will...
Professors Goodwin, White, and Wright of the Greek department, and Mr. Hayes, who has the work in elocution, have become much interested in the forthcoming matinee performance on April 25th, at the Hollis St. Theatre, of the "Electra," of Sophocles, by the students of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. established in the Lyceum Theatre, New York city. Mr. Franklin H. Sargent, a Harvard graduate, and former instructor in the university, is the director of the Dramatic Academy, and has had for his associates in that institution many theartical professionals. In New York the "Electra" was presented with great success...
...lecture-room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, yesterday afternoon, Professor J. W. White gave his second lecture on the Greek Theatre and Drama. He said that the Greek drama was a development; it grew from the songs which were sung in worship of Dionysus at the festival of that god. The choral hymn sung on these occasions was called the dithyramb, and from it sprang both tragedy and comedy. The simple choral hymn soon took the form of a dialogue between the leader of the chorus and the chorus; then the chorus was improved in organization; next the number...