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...Theatre du Vieux Colombier nous a apporte une representation bien vivante. Ce n'est pas Racine tel que l'on acoutume de le voir. Il est joue avec une force, vraiment une ferocite, qui laisse le spectateur lui-meme epuise apres quelques scenes. Mais c'etait une force quelquefois ingouvernable--chez Marguerite Jamois (Agrippine), Hubert Noel (Brittanicus), et Jacques Francois (Neron, un monstre ne peut-etre plutot qu'un monstre naissant); une force pas toujours accordee a la tension si forte des lignes alexandrins eux-memes. Mais dans le role de Narcisse, Raymond Gerome a ete merveilleux, une belle anguille...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Britannicus | 12/10/1958 | See Source »

Trumpeter unus erat qui coatum scarlet habebat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hic, Haec, Hoax | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...down in the chronicle of the San Domenico convent at Fiesole are the simple facts about Fra Angelico: in 1407 "Fr. Joannes Petri de Mugello iuxta Vichium, optimus pictor, qui multas tabulas et parietes in diversis locis pinxit, accepit habitum clericorum in hoc conventu . . . et in sequenti anno fecit professionem."* To this, Vasari adds only that Fra Giovanni's name was Guido, that he was born in 1387, and entered the Dominican monastery "chiefly for the sake of his soul and for his peace of mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Bearers of Gifts | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...gentium sunt Nymphae Gratiaeque decentes? Cur nihil nisi membra disiecta? Nam hac in Senecae fabula Ration Stoica nihil potest, et ubique regnat Furor et Cupido ct Caedesl Phaedra enim cui voluptas effrenata maximum habet imperium, noverca nec innocens nec Fato percussa, mala ex libidine constituit suum privignum Hippolytum stuprare. Qui tamen, documentum nobis omnibus gravissimum, ex nimis pura castitate tantum silvas canesque amat, et feminas omnes--pro pudor--detestatur horret fugit execratur. Quid plura? Ne argumentum explicem, vos (et Phaedram Hippolytumque) manbet snaguis et cruor et exitium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Phaedra Nostra | 4/22/1955 | See Source »

Nunc ad vos tanseo qui principales partes Cecropio coturno agitis, ex quibus primi cum primis estis nominandi: tu, o Dorothea blandissima, et tu, o Ripa Pulchra (ab his conturaits puellis caute cave, o sagax KerbyMolitor!), nec non tu, o Michael purior quam sapientior, ct tu, o Sullivane frustra infernis ab tenebris resurrecte, et tu, o T. noster Hilaris, adulescens animac plene, Et chorum doctissimum et sobrium, ardium saplentiae fontem liquidae, et famulos fideles totis laudibus ad caclum extollimus. Quibus ombibus "florcatis gloria" dicunt Seneca Altonque Peters; nobis tamen "sacer est ignis (credite lacsis) nimiumque potens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Phaedra Nostra | 4/22/1955 | See Source »

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