Word: plautus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock tonight and tomorrow night in Sanders Theatre, the "Menaechmi" of Plautus will be presented in the original Latin by the Harvard Classical Club. At this time members of the University and the public will have an opportunity to see the first rendering of an ancient play in classical languages since the "Agamemnon" was given...
...compromise with the ancients. Those who have found in the classics a metal that never tarnishes will go to be again confirmed. When in 1906 the Classical Club presented "Agamemnon", the twentieth century found its somber colors still unfaded under the stadium sky. In 1930 the robust comedy of Plautus will paint in lighter, sharper colors the humors and frailties of a no less common humanity...
...follow, the audience will be given translations prepared by two Club members. Out of the dust of many years, the illimitable swaggerer and beggar, man of the world and man in the street will emerge and command a modern interpretation. It is rumored that the ghost of old Plautus himself, lured from his pleasant Roman Hell by the familiar setting, will chuckle in the wings to frighten the censor...
Translations of the "Menaechmi" of Plautus, the play to be presented by the Classical Club in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday, will go on sale along with tickets tomorrow at Leavitt and Peirce's, the Coop, Herrick's, and Stoughton 20, it was announced by W. S. Smith '30, member of the production committee. The translation, written by E. C. Weist '30 and R. W. Hyde '30, is intended to serve as a souvenir of the production, and along with a summary printed on the program, will aid the audience in following the action. The comedy as produced...
...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...