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Several undergraduates will serve as gentlemen of Sir Walter Ralegh's company and a number as the Elizabethan audience of the play...
...action of the play takes place in the cabin of Sir Walter Ralegh's ship "Destiny," off the month of the Orinoco in the winter of 1617-18, during the voyage to discover gold in Guiana, on the success of which Ralegh's life depended...
...Sir Walter Ralegh, Barrett Wendell...
...Comedie Royall," is a story of Elizabethan days in blank verse and is considered one of the most vigorous pieces of writing in modern English. In it Miss Horsford appears as the "peppery" Virgin Queen, Miss Dupree as a maid of honor, and Woodruff as a young court gallant, Sir Harold Hartwynd. New scenery has been painted for this production by the artist of Keith's Theatre, and all the costumes were originally made for the Bradley Martin Ball...
Ralegh in Guiana, the play to be given in Sanders Theatre, on March 22, was written by Professor Wendell, for private performance in Boston. The play endeavors to set forth, somewhat in the manner of an Elizabethan chronicle history, the events which led to the failure of Sir Walter Ralegh's final effort to secure for England the possession of the country now called Venezuela. These are chiefly recorded in Ralegh's "Discovery of Guiana," and in his "Apology...