Word: romanticisms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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"The Fair Maid of the West" is a romantic drama dealing with the fortunes of Bess Bridges and her lover, Captain Spencer. The scenes shift rapidly from English taverns to Spanish galleons and pirate ships, and to the coast of Morocco. The play is characterized by skilfully drawn contrasts between...
Two old friends, Bergamin and Pasquinot, wishing to end their days together, tell their respective children, Percinet and Sylvette, that they are mortal enemies, in the hope that if the young people are forbidden to meet, they will seek to do so, and thereby fall in love. But as the...
Four or five of the parts, like Mr. Layman's old tutor, Juettner, Mr. Perrin's waiter translated from inn to court, Mrs. Barnes-Hochberg's Kaethie of the tavern, and in a little less degree Mr. Schurig's mincing and mealy-mouthed chamberlain, were admirably taken. The players had...
The predominant charm of the play is its exposition of Bohemia; it "discovers student life in one of the most delightful cities of the old world, and a scrupulous fidelity to the aspect of the romantic old German city and the sports and songs of the gay Heidelberg students is...