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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...
Nunc demum ver et Plautus adest; fons ardoris omnia irrigat. Qui modo adulescentes sobrii et severi crant, iam in theatro mirifice sunt amoris imperatores facti. Eheu, quam proterve K. Vadum Fractum, lascivi suboles gregis, iterum aestuat! Musae quidem Plautinae alto de caelo Cantabrigiam descenderunt; Risus Ludus Iocusque ubique vigescunt. Tempestas nobis arridet. O ver Plautinum! O collegium Harvardianum, nuper modestum morum bonorum praesidium, nunc vividum alacris motus gymnasium! Cavete igitur vos decani decanulique--"non intret Cato theatrum meum"--nec non vos, o septum novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti...
...Write a brief essay on humor and slapstick in Plautus...