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...Dramatic Club plays, Holberg's "Erasmus Montanus" and Lord Dunsany's "Fame and the Poet," were read yesterday afternoon at the Phillips Brooks House by R. T. Bushnell 2L, a former president, to the members and candidates of the Dramatic Club and the officers of the Idler Club at Radcliffe, who are co-operating with the University players in the selection of the female characters. Over 150 were present...
...Holberg was the founder of Danish literature and is considered the first writer of his time with the exception of Voltaire. He came into Danish literature at a time when it was said, "a man wrote Latin to his friends, talked French to the ladies, and called his dogs in German, and only used Danish to swear at his servants." Before his death he had established a theatre, supplied it with comedies, and contributed masterpieces of poetry, and essays. His plays are of universal interest due to his extensive travels. It was while he was a student at Oxford that...
...Dramatic Club has chosen for its first production under its new policy of staging plays by foreign authors that have not been given in this country, Lord Dunsany's latest play, a one-act comedy, "Fame and the Poet," and Holberg's Erasmus Montanus," or "Jeppe," a comedy translated from the Danish by the late Frederick Schenck '09 and O. J. Campell...
...comedies of Holberg were the first and greatest of the Scandinavian theatre. They have been translated into all the languages of continental Europe, and are still played on the modern stage, especially in Copenhagen, to large audiences...
...Holberg Noted Danish Dramatist...