Word: phormio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Sanders Theatre on March 19 and 20 when the Harvard Classical Club presents the "Menaechmi" of Plautus, members of the University will have an opportunity to see the first Latin play produced at Harvard since the club gave the "Phormio" in 1893. This year's play, the first to be given by the club entirely on its own initiative, will be rendered in Latin metrically, to the accompaniment of two clarinets, an oboe, and a bassoon. The music, which attempts to recall rather than reproduce that of the Romans, was written by R. S. Shuman...
Fortnight ago in London, in accordance with ancient custom, Westminster School (St. Peter's College) boys produced Terence's Phormio (The Parasite). The hoary College Dormitory, designed by famed Sir Christopher Wren, has housed similar productions each year since 1729. Older than the Westminster tradition of struggling for a tossed pancake on Shrove Tuesday is the annual presentation of a Latin play. It is also customary for the year's bright scholars to write a prolog and epilog and last fortnight the London Times bowed to custom by reproducing these learned appendages fully-four fat columns...