Word: plautus
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...Harvard Dramatic Club has a treat in store for you at Sanders Theater this weekend. "Amphitryon 38" is a sparkling theaterpiece that has delighted audiences and playwrights through thirty-eight versions, beginning with that of Plautus--down through Moliere, Dryden, to the late Jean Giradoux. It has possibly become more polished each time, for this most recent telling could hardly glisten more than it does...
...Schoen-Rene '30, instructor in English, assisted by Francis O. Matthiesson '27, professor of History and Literature, Jean-Joseph Sezuce, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Cesar L. Barber '35, instructor in History and Literature, and Finley. The course will include reading of the representative works of Aristophanes, Plautus, Jonson, Shakespeare, Mollere, Gogol, and Shaw...
George Abbott swiped it from Shakespeare, Shakespeare swiped it from Plautus, and Plautus swiped it from somebody else; we will take Mr. Abbott's version any day, but it is probable that Mr. Shakespeare spent a restless evening last night...
...Boys from Syracuse" is a gay and tuneful production, and though the plot, as in Plautus' time, is somewhat innocuous, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have poured so much of the soul of modern melody into the show that their position as the foremost song writing team of musical comedy cannot be questioned; "Falling in Love," "Shortest Day in the Year," and especially "This Can't Be Love" are three of the best tunes to have appeared in many months, and the cast renders them to perfection...
...regular business of the Club is nothing compared to the activity which fills the year in which the play is given, a terminal cycle which began in 1930 with Plautus "Menaechmi" and continued with the "Philoctetes" of Sophoceles three year later...