Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard is made to expatiate her sins in divers and manifold ways. In silence she endures the infliction of "Harvard" Shakespeares, of "Harvard" bookracks and of "Harvard" streets and cowpaths in almost every hamlet of Massachusetts. What will be the next indignity to be put upon her we cannot guess - perhaps a Harvard baking powder or a Harvard infants' food...
...George Riddle, the actor of "OEdipus," and formerly instructor in elocution at Harvard, has been engaged for five years by Mr. J. M. Hill. He is not to appear upon the stage, however, until next September, when he will act in Boston. He is to play in "Ruy Blas," "Hamlet," "Romeo and Juliet," "Romance of a Poor Young Man," and a new play by Mr. Howells on the subject of Orestes...
Miss Dickinson is to cross the dramatic Rubicon next Monday evening; she will appear in New York as Hamlet, and is said to dread lest the withering criticism of the city will destroy the laurels she has won in the provinces...
...people," Puck remarks, "discover their mission until it is too late. Perhaps when Anna Dickinson attains her twenty-first year she will find out that her forte is not "Hamlet...
Gerster's repertoire for the New York season includes Ambrose Thomas' "Hamlet...