Word: silently
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday afternoon in Sever 11 Mr. George P. Baker lectured to a very large audience on "The Elizabethan Method of Producing a Play." The lecture was a very appropriate introduction to the coming representation of Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman...
...Public theatres were roofed over above the galleries and stage. The pit was open and must have been rather uncomfortable in rainy weather. The shareholders of the private theatres had their own boxes. Performances were given by candle-light instead of in the daytime as at public theatres. "The Silent Woman" was originally performed at the Blackfriars Theatre, which was private. Unfortunately it is not known what the interior looked like. Sanders will be made to resemble the Swan, a public theatre, as far as possible...
...scenery is a much disputed matter. The old idea is that there was none at all; but Mr. Day, the architect who is at work on the scenery for the "Silent Woman," thinks there was. In the first place the books of the theatrical managers of the Elizabethan period contain items of painted cloths, trees, and other appliances. Mr. Day says the depth of the stage was twenty-five feet, too great to be spanned by one roof, hence the two roofs. The space concealed by the slanting roof was used to arrange and lower scenery...
...George P. Baker will give a lecture in Sever 11 this afternoon at 4.30, on "The Elizabethan Method of Producing a Play." As an introduction to the presentation of "The Silent Woman," this lecture will be of special interest to the many who are unfamiliar with the peculiarities of the Elizabethan stage...
...faculty also decided not to have Jonson's "Silent Woman" presented at Yale, as has been contemplated by the professors in English Literature, but to allow as many students as practicable to witness the presentation of that drama at Harvard next month...