Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approaching New York production of Sophocles' "Electra", which is to take place on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House on May 3, and 4, recalls memories of the first time a Greek tragedy was played on an American stage, when in 1881 Harvard undergraduates produced Sophocles' "Oedipus...
...play without applause, without so much as a murmur of conversation down the crowded aisles. This greatest of all tributes the tribute of silence was paid to a dramatist two thousand years dead. Sophocles was that dramatist and it was Sir John Martin-Harvey's performance of "Oedipus Rex" that so won Broadway...
...bogs and fogs which beset most German writers. He pictures a group of people, the life of whom is calm and ordered; but somewhere in this group there is the ferment of evil. In the path of each little insignificant wrong, punishment subtly folows sin. Nemesis pursues Man--Oedipus, Christian Wahnschaffe--, Man, who must act and yet knows not how, lost in a world in which ignorance is no excuse for criminality. Destruction is swift cutting down even the most innocent; the entire group is brought to the abyss of ruin, into which Wassermann has formerly not disdained to hurl...
...Bosis is a student of Roman Archaeology and the Greek theatre. He has also translated into Italian verse the Greek tragedies, "Oedipus Antigone," and also Shakespeare's "Hamlet...
...dressing-room glimpse of the show, which only opened officially in scene 2. In scene 3 Allan Prior sang with much volume, but little distinctness, in "Flowers of Evil." Then came two pieces of royal buffoonery, introducing--first Queen Bess and Will Shakespeare, and second a red-haired Oedipus Rex. The act ended with "Her Wedding Day" buffoonery rather less royal, but more effective. The second act was very much in keeping with the first; while throughout the play were comic interludes, with all varieties of horse play, and a good many really original jokes...