Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although the drama has clever action, it is essentially a drama of character, and the rather slight plot is used mainly as a background for the exposition of Marlowe's personality. The poet's pursuit of happiness, his love of fame and his reputed atheism struggle against his spirituality and his finer nature which has been awakened by his noble love for Alison. It is to shield the object of this love that Marlowe seeks the duel which ends so fatally for him. Tradition has it that Marlowe was killed in a vulgar tavern brawl, but in the play...
...papers transferring to Radcliffe College from the Greenleaf heirs a large piece of land opposite the Radcliffe yard in Cambridge, facing Brattle street on one side and Ash street on the other, have been passed. The plot contains about 94,299 square feet, the price of which is $80,000. Radcliffe comes into immediate possession of about two-thirds of the estate, for which it pays $63,500, while it has a two-years' option on the remainder...
This play is probably the most interesting and best constructed of Jonson's works. The plot is outlined with clearness and amusing situations abound. The story concerns itself with the winning of an inheritance and the schemes employed to obtain the fortune are most ingenious. A nephew seeking his uncle's riches procures a silent woman, really a youth, to wed his uncle. The conclusion finds the nephew the accepted heir. The scene of the play is laid in London...
...buildings of the new Medical School, situated on a plot of 26 acres, bounded by Longwood avenue, Huntington avenue, and Villa street, Brookline, are now about two-thirds completed, and will be ready for occupation by the first of January, 1906. Although, owing to difficulty in procuring sufficiently large block of marble, the work has been somewhat delayed, the walls and roofs of all the building-except the Administration building and the power house are now finished...
...play is written in verse of great variety and striking effect and indeed its charm lies rather in well turned phrases and humorous situations than in any remarkable originality of plot. First produced in 1704, it is still a masterpiece on a theme now become almost trite...