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...senior year at Princeton in 1954, Daniel Seltzer, assistant professor of English, wrote a thesis that was nearly six hundred pages long (don't put that down as if I were proud of it"). Dealing with "royal themes--the characterization of moral ideas on the stage," the thesis was for Seltzer a "kind of catharsis," and he now looks back with Joycean delight at the comment of his roommate who suggested that "I put the thing on casters...
...important test of the plan's feasibility may be this spring's experiment at the Loeb, which will combine lectures with regular rehearsals in staging fall-scale productions of Shakespeare's King Lear and Julius Caesar, as well as concert readings of four plays by Christopher Marlowe. Daniel Seltzer, assistant professor of English and acting director of the Loeb, said he would want to see how the experiment worked out before making any formal proposal to give academic credit for a drama ocurse...
...Seltzer said he hopes that the lectures and discussions will"bring the technical and acting portions f the Loeb closer to each other. In the past, the technical personnel have been separated from the actual dramatic work...
...noted that William Alfred, associate professor of English; Reuben A. Brower, professor of English; Alfred B. Harbage, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot, professor of English; and Harry T. Levin, Irving Babbitt professor of Comparative Literature, may give some of the lectures. With Seltzer, they form the Faculty Committee on Drama...
...students will constitute "sort of a reportory company," Seltzer said, in which one actor may have a major role in Lear but only a minor one in Julius Caesar. He said that plans for casting were not definite yet, but that all actors would probably have to audition to be admitted to the project. Casting for parts would take place after the program had begun...