Word: oedipuses
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...next year Oedipus took Harvard and Boston by storm. Tickets sold for $30 on the black market. Its cast has perhaps never been equalled at the University, and the reaction it received probably never will...
George Riddle, an outsider who had acted with Edwin Booth, portrayed Oedipus. His success in this role was only the first of many he was to receive in the theatre. Curtis Guild, a future Massachusetts Governor, played Tiresias while Owen Wister, later to write The Virginan, was second messenger. J.K. Whittemore, George L. Kittredge, and John Knowles Paine also took part in the production. They were to become a professor of mathematics, a foremost Shakespeare critic, and the founder of the Harvard Music department, respectively...
...crime upon which the plot of Oedipus rests is so foul and revolting that the base suggestion of it is not to be found in even the worst modern literature.... She (Harvard) it is who planned to gather from hundreds of homes all that is pure and maidenly and guileless, shut it up within her walls and subject it to this hard ordeal...
...CRIMSON, however, had a different view. Its editorial page immediately replied, "The letter in Wednesday's Advertiser on the "morality' of Oedipus is one of the most childish productions we have ever read." Rev. Edward E. Hale also felt the same way and preached in the South Congregational Church that Oedipus was perfectly compatible with Christianity. Even the Lampoon thought the play worthy of attention, but could think of nothing better to do than lampoon...
...Greek Department and the Classics Club, however, were to advance to still greater things. Using an all-male cast, as they had done with Oedipus, the group put on The Birds by Aristophanes in 1901 and drew the following comment from a Boston paper: "The ladies looking on could not help exclaiming at the beauty of Mr. Doyle as an attendant. The Queen (A. H. Rice) was nobly demure and enticing...