Word: plautus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the Well. Written when he was 25., The Curmudgeon is minor compared to the later shrewd comedies that inspired (by way of plagiarisms by Plautus) European playwrights from Racine to Giraudoux...
...most important efforts have been those of the Harvard-Radcliffe Classical Players, who in the spring of 1949 gave the first play in Latin here since the mid 1930's. Since then the Players have put on six Roman comedies in the original--most of them by Plautus. By far the high point, though, was the group's very moving 1956 production in the Fogg Museum court of Oedipus at Colonus, given in Sophocles' original Greek under the direction of Robert A. Brooks...
Three years afterwards the University granted the club approximately a $3,000 subsidy to put on Mosellaria by Plautus for Harvard's Tercentenary anniversary. Only the best was good enough for the staging of this Latin comedy, so the group sent off to New York for costumes and sets...
First Sweater Girl. The critics compared Harrigan to Euripides. Plautus Shakespeare, Dickens and Ibsen. Hart was dubbed "a genius" and the "Irish Apollo." In one peak five-year span Harrigan and Hart played to 10,000 people a week, netted $200,000, and gave the New York stage its first sweater girl-she wore no corset...
...table. But more important than its disciplined democracy is the quality of its intellectual fare. The boys are taken up through calculus and analytic geometry, read everything from the Iliad (in Greek) to Racine's Phèdre (in French) to the Latin of Terence, Tacitus and Plautus...