Word: plautus
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...result of trials for parts in the Latin play, the "Menaechmi" of Plautus, which the Harvard Classical Club is to present next winter, the directors of the production, Professors E. K. Rand '94 and F. C. Packard '20 and Mason Hammond '25, have announced a tentative cast...
...meeting held on Tuesday night, the Classical Club voted to produce a Roman comedy, in the original, during the winter of next year. It is likely that the play chosen for presentation will be "The Menaechmi" of Plautus...
...Phoutrides will take the place of Dr. W. C. Greene '11 in conducting several course in Latin and Greek Composition while Dr. Greene in addition to his regular work will assist Professor E. K. Rand in a course on "Virgil". The popular course on "Livy, Plautus, and Terence; Horace and other Latin Poets", will be conducted this year by a new staff composed of Professor Rand, Dr. Greene, Dr. Phoutrides, and Assistant Professor R. K. Hack. Dr. Phoutrides, who is a new man in the Department, will also have charge of the course on the "History of Classical Greek Literature...
...shall have to depreciate, but others, in compensation, we shall esteem more highly, because more intelligently, than ever before. The discovery in Egypt, for instance, of large fragments of Menander has detracted from the glory that had attached to his name, but it has correspondingly increased the appreciation of Plautus and Terence, who had hitherto been considered less talented imitators. Gilbert Murray's translations and extravagant eulogies of Euripides have provoked such a legion of protestants that from the polemics of both factions we may expect finally to attain a just conception of the Greek poet's actual worth...
...Ralph Roister Doister" marks the combination of classical and native elements in the English drama. The play follows the "Miles Gloriosus", of Plautus, but interprets the characters in the vein of Elizabethan comedy. The plot of the story centres about a town gallant who is made to believe that he is in love with a fascinating young widow. The climax comes with his disillusionment...