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...Menaechmi" is the first Latin play to be presented for public performance by the club, which has been at work on the production since last March, and is the fourth classical play to be given in the original language at Harvard. "Oedipus Tyrannus" was presented in 1881 with Owen Wister '82 in the cast and G. L. Kittredge '81 prompter. Thirteen years later the "Phormio" of Terence was given, with (now) Professor E. K. Rand '94 taking the leading role. The presentation of the "Agamemnon" in the Soldiers Field Stadium in 1906 was a brilliant spectacle...
...What is that which is fourfooted, three-footed and two-footed?" That horrendous bogey, the ancient Theban Sphinx, who had the face of a woman, the feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird, ate up the Thebans who could not guess her riddle.* Smart Oedipus answered her: Man, who goes on allfours as a baby, on two legs as an adult, on two legs and a cane in old age. Whereupon the vexed Sphinx threw herself from a mountain...
...production is not a departmental one in any way. It is the fourth such presentation by the Classical Club the first, that of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex", having been given in 1876. In 1893 the "Phormio" of Terence was produced, and, in 1906, the "Agamem non" of Aeschylus. Only one performance of the "Menaechmi" will be given and that open only to members of the University...
...repressions; the very repressions which all parents in an attempt to subdue "Old Adam" have so diligently planted and nurtured in the minds of their children. It is supposed that psychoanalysis in the Samuel Butler manner cries "J'accuse" to the older generation. The notion of the much-heralded Oedipus complex and the suggestion that the parent must adjust to the child rather than vica versa is disquieting and seems hopelessly impractical. The sins of flaming youth, it seems, are laid to the fathers by psychoanalysis, and the fathers return the compliment. What is more, from the point of view...
...King Oedipus," Professor Gulick, Sever...