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...SUMICHRAST...
Professor de Sumichrast gave the last of the series of lectures on the Psychological Drama of the Seventeenth Century, yesterday afternoon in Sever 11. It was a lecture teeming with the expression of that deep appreciation and sympathy which have been so characteristic of the series...
Professor de Sumichrast introduced his subject by a short history of the Convent of Saint Cyr where the masterpieces of Racine were acted under the supervision of Mme. de Maintenon. When Athalie was first produced, instead of arousing the enthusiasm which Racine had so confidently hoped for it, it seemed to fall flat, the truth being that it was so far superior to the standards of the times that it was beyond appreciation; it was a play written for posterity...
Professor de Sumichrast then gave an exhaustive description of the scenes of interest throughout the play, bringing out forcibly the truth of the remark with which he had prefaced the series of lectures, that of all modern nations none has shown a more dramatic instinct than the French in the Classical Drama of the Seventeenth Century...
Cercle Francais. The French Psychological Drama of the Seventeenth Century - IV., Racine's "Athalie." Professor de Sumichrast. Sever...