Word: play
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Owing to the College Conference meeting, the Conference Francaise will hold its meeting at 8.30 instead of 7.30 on Wednesday. M. Cohn will read the play to be produced by the society...
...extremely improbable that Stagg of Yale will withdraw from the nine next season, as announced. If he does not fill the pitcher's box, he will play somewhere in the infield...
...play was first represented in 431 B. C., when it gained the third prize only, being judged inferior to the works of Sophocles and of Euphorion, the son of Aeschylus. This shows the comparative popularity of the authors more than the real literary merits of the pieces...
...Medea, one of the three oldest play of the poet whose dates are known, seems to us a more painful tale than it did to the Athenians. We love children and sympathize with them more than the ancients, who only valued their offspring as a means of perpetuating the family name and traditions. The great attraction of the play lies in the fact that it illustrates the character of the best Greek work...
...formulate these canons, but he had little influence on the drama, as the greatest poet lived before his time. He was himself largely under the influence of the "Oedipus Tyrannus." These canons are the so-called "three unities" of space, time, and action. The strict limitation of the play to one spot is not authorized by Aristotle. The simplicity of the Greek plays, and the few possible changes of scene, rendered extremely difficult by the fact that there was no curtain, limited the Greek dramatists to one place. These conditions also rendered the unity of time necessary, as the events...