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Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature in the University, will deliver a series of five lectures on the tragedies of Shakespeare in Sanders Theatre during the latter part of this month, it was announced yesterday. He will take up in this series Macbeth, Othello, Julius Caesar. King Lear, and Hamlet, and will analyze each tragedy from a critical point of view. The series is provided for by the Dowse Institute which was established for this purpose. Due to the Great War, the fund during the past few years was given to charity, but now, with that...
Tuesday, January 16.--Macbeth...
...tries to defeat the English, the figure nine has been accredited with extraordinary mystical powers. Fail once, then try eight more times, and on the ninth attempt success will result. If nine tries are too exhausting, three might do. "Thrice the brinded cat hath spowed," said the witch in Macbeth, and undoubtedly her use of the number was highly significant. But there are some numbers that apparently mean nothing...
...stuff!" the Babylonian reviewers must have said, when the Book of Genesis appeared in their bookstalls. To them the Hebrew Story of Mankind was nothing more than the rehash of an old Sumerian legend which they had learned in their cradles, a sort of Macbeth-out-of-Holinshed affair, lacking even the frankness to acknowledge its source...
Opera House.--Robert Mantell with Genevieve Hamper in the standard repertoire in which he established his reputation some decades ago. This afternoon, "As You Like It"; tonight "Hamlet"; Thursday, "Richelieu"; Friday, "Macbeth"; Saturday matinee, "Merchant of Venice"; Saturday night, "Richard...