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Last night Mr. Copeland spoke of "Shakespeare briefly compared with other Elizabethan Dramatists." The "other dramatists" whom he selected were Webster, Ford, Jonson, Massinger, Hayward, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Marlowe, it being understood that these were chosen because they were the best of their age and not because they were the only ones worthy of mention. The lecture, or rather the informal talk, was filled with the anecdote and reminiscence of plays and actors, which is so interesting from Mr. Copeland; and his reading at the close was unusually effective, if that may be said...
...Copeland complained that outside of Jonson's ballad, "Drink to me only with thine Eyes," almost no works of the minor dramatists of the Elizabethan age are read nowadays. The plays of Jonson, Webster, Hayward and the rest, are many of them excellent reading, and a slight acquaintance with them will almost always bring with it the desire for greater familiarity. Not only are they thus interesting in themselves, but they form the best background for Shakespeare's works, and it is a shame that we are content to take him without...
...young folks. This compilation is now ready, and is soon to be published by D. C. Heath and Co., Boston, under the title of "The Heart of Oak Books." These books are five in number, and are carefully graded. The first contains childish rhymes and melodies old as Ben Jonson and Shakspeare and Goldsmith, and some of the best-known fables and stories in our tongue. The second includes children's poems and nursery tales, "old as Hengist and Horsa." In the the three remaining volumes are shorter poems universally accepted as treasures of the language-many from the Elizabethan...
...Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes, Words by Ben Jonson, harmony by Vogrich...
...FRIDAY.Lecture. The Golden Treasury. With reading from Ben Jonson, Herrick, Lovelace, and other Seventeenth-Century Poets. Mr. Copeland. Sever...