Word: social
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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...
...being possessed of the faculty of condensing into a single scene the striking traits of a whole class, made his works reflect the whole panorama of society. Jealousy is a trait to which he devoted much attention. Laying his finger on the spot most open to ridicule, he pilloried social characteristics that are as prominent now as then. He was a true precursor of the Revolution, in that he attacked the nobles, not as individuals, but as a class...
...LECTURES ON IDEALS OF DEMOCRACY. I. "Social Ideals." Mr. G. Lowes Dickinson, of King's College, Cambridge. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...final Hyde lecture on "Moliere" will be delivered by Professor Abel Lefranc, of the College de France, Paris, in the New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The address will be devoted to a consideration of the social conditions of Moliere's age and to a study of the feminine elements which are important in his works...
This lecture, which is open to the public, is on the special subject, "Social Ideals." The remaining lectures of the series will be given on Wednesday and Friday...