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...first snow yesterday just past noon and the flakes melting before they touched the sidewalks. The Vagabond busy as the squirrels in the Yard, leafing through his Chaucer, reading J. Q. Adams: "Chief Pre-Shakespearian Dramas," (Shakespearian always looks wrong after a year of Kitty's Shakespere), listening to Crane Brinton in History 34a, taking a brisk walk along the Charles, breathing October...
Five facsimiles of original editions of Shakespearian works are now on display in the Lowell House Library. Taken from the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library, the exhibition includes...
...this production three times and he still finds it difficult to contain his rhapsodies within dignified limits. Despite changes in the cast and the natural wearing off which seven months could be expected to bring the presentation is as animated, as profoundly stirring, as magnificently performed as any Shakespearian production of the past ten years which is as far back as the Playgoer feels qualified to stretch his comparison...
...some feel driven to research of their own, while the majority return to the text with a deep and lasting understanding of its true meaning. Because Professor Kittredge accomplished these two results virtually to perfection, he is responsible for our conception of Shakespeare and has himself taught every recognized Shakespearian authority in modern America...
...needs resulting from the mingling of graduates and undergraduates. The Chaucerian philology and grammar and scholarship which is necessary to the graduate kills the beginner's pleasure in the poetry. One of the best means of fulfilling the requirement of the English Department for one course in Pre-Shakespearian literature is a year of Chaucer. There are already graduate courses in the field, for example, English 4 (Middle English: Language and Literature from 1150 to 1400), and it seems highly advisable to remodel English 1 on the lines of the tremendously popular courses in Chaucer at Yale and Princeton...