Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...three professors in charge of the Greek Play, will give a lecture on the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus, Monday afternoon, at 4.30 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. The lecture is intended primarily for those who are unfamiliar with the play. Professor Smyth will give a sketch of the plot and a criticism with a view to bringing out clearly the character delineations, and will read numerous selections from the play, in Professor Goodwin's translation...
...Upsilon play, "The Wise Woman of Hogsdon," a five-act comedy by Thomas Heywood, was successful; indeed the play was practically carried through without a break. With one or two corrections in the groupings the performance this evening should be most effective. In consideration of the fact that the plot is not strong and that the situations are not unusually well conceived the production as a whole was excellent...
...Plot of "Agamemnon...
...Graduates' performance last evening was unusually successful; indeed the production indicated that the Verein is likely this year to surpass all previous efforts. The play was carried through without a break and with increasing action and spirit. The choice of the play is particularly happy. The plot is clear cut and the situations productive of uproarious laughter...
...mated and Pickwickian, and consequently are drawn into all sorts of entanglements and paradoxical complications, while the courtship of the fourth forms an agreeable and pleasing contrast by the good sense, independent thought and true feeling which make the friendship of this pair finally mature into love. The plot is simple and perspicuous and does not require a detailed analysis, but it is handled in a witty and clever manner, and there is not a dull line in the whole comedy. It is a play of unquestionable artistic merit and a striking refutation of the charge of heaviness so often...