Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worthy hands of young, brilliant Everett Fahy. Fahy teaches Fifteenth Century Italian Art with a sympathy for both his subject and his students. For Low Country fans, there is Prof. van Regteran Altena, who wowed his first class by delivering a forty-minute lecture in verse (on Seventeenth Century Dutch Art). The rest of the lectures in Fine Arts 158 (M. W. F. at 11) will be prose efforts...
...wryly note, for instance, that the Old Testament's Joseph was the first man to corner the grain market. After all, when the seven fat years ended in Egypt and the seven lean years began, wasn't Joseph the only man with grain stacked in his barns? Seventeenth century Holland experienced one of the first of the futures markets. Dutchmen became so infatuated with tulips from Asia Minor that they stopped planting and began trading them. Prices rose to the point where one merchant paid $1,400 for a Semper Augustus bulb, which was eaten by an employee...
...Iewe towards the sayd Merchant. . . ." The fact is that Shakespeare, and Elizabethan Londoners generally, could have had little if any first-hand knowledge of Jews, since Jews had been banished from England at the end of the thirteenth century and were not readmitted until the middle of the seventeenth...
...ougly Hell" that shot flames to a "heaven opening," full of deities and a celestial chorus. He specially enjoyed sketching extravagant costumes for the court ladies, most of which he designed so that the ladies were prettily, if ingenuously, exposed, wearing at most diaphanous veils across the bosom. Seventeenth century ladies, however, were an imperious lot, and had no compunctions about altering their dress to suit themselves. History does not record how many of them actually chose to turn up bare-breasted at the festivities...
Evans is now a professor at the University of Illinois, where he has taught for 20 years. He has edited "Shakespeare Prompt-books of the Seventeenth Century," "The Tragedy of Richard the Third" in The Pelican Shakespeare, and "The Plays and Poems of William Cartwright...