Word: medea
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Director Heinrich Conried, manager of the Irving Place Theatre Company of New York, will present today, under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, Grillparzer's "Medea," for the benefit of the Germanic Museum. The performance will be held at the Colonial Theatre, Boston at 2.30 o'clock. Tickets are still on sale at Thurston's, and may be obtained at the theatre...
...Medea," a five-act play, is the third member of the trilogy, "The Golden Fleece," published in 1822. It is considered by some his greatest achievement, and is certainly the best of the three plays in the trilogy. None is perhaps better suited to give an idea of Grillparzer's peculiar distinction as a dramatist than "Medea." The first two members of the trilogy, "The Guest-Friend" and "The Argonauts," are the necessary supplements of the "Medea" in order to understand fully the development of the heroine's character...
...incompatibility of Greek and barbarian nature is the theme of the play and the source of all the sorrows of Jason and Medea. Jason has married Medea, but the Greeks ostracize him because of his barbarian wife. Medea affects in vain the Grecian dress and Grecian accomplishments: she remains hopelessly barbarian. Finally Medea, despised by her husband, repudiated by her children, and exiled by the country, becomes possessed with jealousy and fury, sets the palace aflame, kills her children and departs. The fifth act is an epilogue. The cast of the play is as follows: Kreon, Mr. Adolph Winds Kreusa...
Allow me through your columns to call the attention of the student body to the performance of "Medea." to be given next Thursday, December 6th, at 2.30 P. M. in the Colonial Theatre, by Mr. Conried's lrving Place Theatre Company of New York. Grillparzer's "Medea" is one of the few really great modernizations of a Greek subject, and ranks in elevation of feeling and purity of style with such masterpieces as Goethe's "Iphigenia" or Sophocles' "Antigone." From the criticism of the New York papers it appears that Mr. Conried's company is this year particularly good...
...GERMAN PLAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GERMANIC MUSEUM. "Grillparzer's 'Medea.'" Colonial Theatre, Boston, 2.30 P. M. Tickets on sale at Herrick's, at Thurston's, and at the Theatre...