Word: ralph
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This evening the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will give its first public performance of Nicholas Udall's "Ralph Roister Doister". This play, surviving in one copy owned by Eton College, is usually regarded as our first English comedy in the sense that people and manners English and not foreign are depicted wholly for amusement and not to instruct or to moralize. It was written for the Eton or Westminister School boys to act, for Udall was successively master in both schools. It derives its inspiration from Latin comedy, but as a whole is original and English...
There was much good acting Friday. Mr. Duncan threw much spirit into Merygreeke. Mr. Benchley's dry staccato made Ralph very amusing. But next time, probably, he will have brought together his effects and points into a clearly characterized figure. Friday he played somewhat unevenly, now depicting clearly and now sketching somewhat vaguely. Mr. Merrill, as Tibet, the maid; Mr. Haussermann, as Dobinet; and particularly Mr. Spelman, as Dame Custance, really supplemented the text and interpreted character. Not often do we see as simply effective emotional acting as that of Mr. Spelman in the meeting of Dame Custance with Goodlucke...
...Delta Upsilon Elizabethan Revival, "Ralph Roister Doister," in "The Barn," Wellesley...
...Delta Upsilon Elizabethan Revival, "Ralph Roister Doister," at Jordan Hall, Boston...
Delta Upsilon Elizabethan Revival, "Ralph Roister Doister," at the Opera House, Exeter...