Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...soon to be published. Last October Mr. Corbin went to Baliol College, Oxford, and since then has been studying there certain archaic features of the Elizabethan drama in preparation for the publication of his book, which will have a prefatory note by F. York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. As its title shows, the book is a study of Hamlet, and of Shakespeare's environment, with the object of showing that the mad scenes now played had a comic aspect now ignored. Mr. Corbin's general point of view is that Shakespeare only wrote the drama...
When Mr. Copeland came to consider the Hamlets of the modern stage, he took for a starting point Mr. Warren's. saying about the character "Give me Booth for the picture, Davenport for the business, and Murdock for the lines...
...poet is the interpreter of his age to itself, yet he is not the interpreter to his age alone. He is the contemporary of all ages. The Ilad and Odyssey are not antiquated and the characters of Shakespeare are all modern characters because human nature remains unalterable in its essential elements...
...ship is 5 years. - (2) Cramp can not construct the best in less than 2 1/2 years: Higgins in Cong. Rec. Vol. 27, p. 3576. - (b) Provision for - (1) Sudden shipwreck, cf. Reina Regente. - (2) Ordinary wear and tear. - (3) Filling place of older ships made nearly useless by modern improvements...
April 2. - Salvini's Othello, and other notable impersonations of the modern stage...