Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This play, written in 1596, is among the first of Shakespere's works comprising his second period--that of the comedies. It naturally divides itself into two parts, the story of the bond and the story of the casket, and the plot centres about Portia and Bassanio. The story of Shylock, although often considered the centre of the plot, in reality forms merely a supporting set of incidents. There is unhappily one great defect in the play, the anticlimactic effect of the last act. It was recognized by Booth, who omitted it in all his performances, and is generally attributed...
...Whitney's articles in Harper's Weekly, shows the number of men from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania who have been given places on the All-American football teams for the last ten years. Cornell, Michigan and West Point have each had one representative in this period. For the last eleven years Harvard has had 28 substitutes, Yale 26, Princeton 22 and Pennsylvania 14. '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 Yale, 3 5 3 3 5 2 2 4 2 3--32 Harvard...