Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Professor a Academic royale des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles and Attache des Musees royaux du Cinquantenaite, has been sent by the Bel- gian government to arrange for the loan of Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century for the exposition which is to be held in Brussels, beginning in April, 1910. He will give a second lecture this week, on Friday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson J, on "Modern Belgian Literature,--Maeterlinck and Verhaeren." This lecture is given on invitation of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and, like the first, will be delivered in French and open...
...Scarecrow," a four-act "tragedy of the ludicrous," is based on Hawthorne's "Feathertop," the scene lying in a small Massachusetts town, at the end of the seventeenth century. The first act opens in a blacksmith shop and the other three are at the home of Justice Merton...
...this sounds very serious, indeed, but the underlying tragedy of the theme comes to the surface only at intervals. The prevailing note is comedy, and there is much rich humor of character and situation. The first act, in the blacksmith shop of Goody Rickby, the witch, in a seventeenth century Massachusetts village, shows the creation and early training of the scarecrow, who, under the title of Lord Ravensbane, is sent into the world to avenge on Rachel, the daughter of Justice Merton, the wrong that the latter in his youth has inflicted on the witch. Attended by Dickon, "a Yankee...
This play, "a tragedy of the ludicrous," as Mr. MacKaye calls it, consists of four acts, the first of which is laid in a blacksmith shop. A small town in Massachusetts is the scene of the play, and the time the latter part of the seventeenth century...
Professor Abel Lefranc in the last of the series of Hyde lectures on "Moliere" given in the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon, treated at length the relation of the works of the great dramatist to the social conditions of the seventeenth century and to the movement for the education of women...