Word: lear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD BROWN Cheek, l.e. r.e., Caito Francisco, l.t. r.t., Brown Schumann, l.g. r.g., Capasso Casey, c. c., Emery Gundlach, r.g. l.g., Patton Kopans, r.t. l.t., Olson Nazro, r.e. l.e., Chapin Haley, q.b. q.b., Walker Wells, l.h.b. r.h.b., Lear Litman, r.h.b. l.h.b., Appleyard Janien, f.b. f.b., Karaban...
...judge how truly Author Stong's 14th novel* mirrors Iowa life, but any hayseed can tell that Author Stong has seen some strongly improbable cinemas. Author Stong, however, has plentifully seasoned this fare with generous helpings of sardonic Iowa humor. Grandpa Storr, a cross between Falstaff and King Lear, talked like Mark Twain in unexpurgated mood. His language and actions were equally offensive to his household, consisting of: his nephew's wife (wicked), his stepdaughter (foolish), her husband (weak). They sat around like jackals waiting for him to die, watching their chance to put him in an institution...
...Shakespeare's Othello and King Lear," Professor Murray, Harvard...
...Nearly every poet we admire today had rivals who overpeered him in his own lifetime. Today even their names are forgotten. Who was the author of "Mucedorus"? In Elizabeth's reign that invertebrate play was the delight of the groundlings who clamored also for "Faustus" and the tragedy of Lear; it could not be staged too often. "Mucedorus" was reprinted twenty times, and was even attributed, by some master of irony, some unhonored Voltaire, (also, alas! unknown) to Shakespeare. But perhaps the author of "Mucedorus," the Edgar Wallace of his time, never aspired to Valhalia. . . Let us summon from Limbo...
...Budapest, Camillo Felleghy and his troupe of four strolling players hopefully mangled Shakespeare's King Lear before an impressed peasant audience who ended by calling for "Author! Author!" When Felleghy responded wearing a false beard hooked over his ears, bowing his thanks, three Shakespeare lovers who had seen King Lear at the Budapest State Theatre leaped to their feet, hurled eggs & onions at Felleghy-Shakespeare. rushed onto the stage and beat him with canes. In Budapest County Court they were fined 20 pengoes ($3.49) each...