Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approaching New York production of Sophocles' "Electra", which is to take place on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House on May 3, and 4, recalls memories of the first time a Greek tragedy was played on an American stage, when in 1881 Harvard undergraduates produced Sophocles' "Oedipus...
...history of the staging of Greek tragedies goes back to about 1850, when Thomas De Quincey described the first Greek play to be produced in Great Britain as the "next best thing to having seen Waterloo at sunset on the 18th of June...
...until 1876, however, that the presentation of a Greek tragedy was given any serious consideration in America. The discussion arose chiefly at Harvard, but the difficulties to be surmounted were so great that the project fell through...
When the play was finally ready, it drew an astounding amount of attention for a drama to be produced entirely in the classical Greek. Speculators offered as much as 625 for a ticket to the closing performance of the play. The box office line formed 18 hours before the first tickets were to be placed on sale. There was, moreover, an unusually distinguished first night audience which included, besides editors, high court officials, and educators too numerous to mention, Longfellow, Emerson, Holmes, Curtis, and Howell...
...book of a noble man seen steadfastly-Saul the scourge, first of the law, then of the Lord; Saul invested always with the dignity of his Roman citizenship, yet humble enough to suffer fiercely, meanly, publicly for peace in his church; Saul the clever theologian and subtle Greek philosopher, never- save once in his proud youth at the feet of Gamaliel-never letting intellectual pride smother the pure flame of Christ's love; ending his days, near the time of Rome's burning, in humble age, saying: "I am only an old man, to whom...