Word: menaechmi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular business of the Club is nothing compared to the activity which fills the year in which the play is given, a terminal cycle which began in 1930 with Plautus "Menaechmi" and continued with the "Philoctetes" of Sophoceles three year later...
Flechter, secretary-treasurer of the Harvard Debating Council, will be the lead-off man. The second negative, Friend, won the Coolidge debating prize in his Freshman year and took part in the Classical Club's production of Menaechmi. Eckles, who is alternate, was chairman of the Freshman debating team, and recipient of the Pasteur Debating Prize...
Doubtless one of the rarest forms of twentieth century amusement is that of attending a Roman comedy, presented in the ancient style, with Roman scenery and costumes, and with the lines all in Latin. And indeed proportional to the rarity is the greatness of the opportunity for witnessing the "Menaechmi", the comedy of Plautus, produced by the Harvard Classical Club...
...clock tonight and tomorrow night in Sanders Theatre, the "Menaechmi" of Plautus will be presented in the original Latin by the Harvard Classical Club. At this time members of the University and the public will have an opportunity to see the first rendering of an ancient play in classical languages since the "Agamemnon" was given...
...this production of "Menaechmi" every erudite effort has been turned towards an exact classical setting, even to the conventional musical instruments of the times. Although the action is easy to follow, the audience will be given translations prepared by two Club members. Out of the dust of many years, the illimitable swaggerer and beggar, man of the world and man in the street will emerge and command a modern interpretation. It is rumored that the ghost of old Plautus himself, lured from his pleasant Roman Hell by the familiar setting, will chuckle in the wings to frighten the censor...