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...cunuchus nunc tennis nunc fortis, omnes adulescentes maximi animi atque facundissimac libertatis; et deinde noster miles barbatus procellosusque (qui baculum habes) et illc umbraculatus Scotus sive sobrius sive ebrius. Nec non omittendi sunt tu, edax Rolande, nec vos, ancillac pellaces, nec vos, sodales quibus socci albi ct ollac ct peniculus semper gloriac sunt, ncc certe tu, adiutor promptissime, fidelis verborum fons et thesaure. Denique illi imperatori histrico ct prologo qui nomen cst Petro, super quem illi hanc comoediam condiderunt, laudes optimac maximac! Gaudeamus igitur, et semper floreat grex totus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Eunucho Harvardiano | 4/17/1953 | See Source »

...merely an amusing play into a really humorous "Comedy of Errors". And it is, incidentally this play upon which Shakespeare based his comedy, the plots being almost identical. Carleton Green '30 carries off the laurels for the acting by his grimacing and gesticulating representation of the part of Peniculus, parasite of Menaechmus I. The rest of the cast, moreover, also puts on an extremely convincing performance, and the combined efforts of all make the revival well worth seeing...

Author: By E. F. N., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/20/1930 | See Source »

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