Word: jocasta
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unfailing source of conversation, and, as was to be expected, a marked difference of opinion has been manifested concerning the proper mode of presenting the ancient tragedy. The ultra-Hellenic party could not abide the orchestra of forty, the supplementary chorus of sixty, the freedom of musical style, Jocasta's train, and other anachronisms. They said it would be an opera, not a Greek play. The modernizing party protested that Jocasta would look like a man if she had no train, that Greek music was luckily irrecoverable, that whatever the acoustic properties of the theatre of Dionysus may have been...
...delight. It was as if the figures with which we are familiar in vases, paintings, and statuary had suddenly warmed into life, burst from their confinement, and appeared before us with all the grace of motion and the brilliancy of color. The most artistic dress was perhaps that of Jocasta on her second appearance. In general it may be said that the actors did not seem to feel quite at home in their drapery...
...Jocasta Mr. L. E. Opdycke...