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...history of English drama from its birth to the present. This in itself was a considerable innovation, since at the turn of the century academic circles did not think of an author still alive as one who could write "literature." English courses of the day ended abruptly with Tennyson. But Baker was concerned with the living theater, not past history; as John Mason Brown says of him, "he kept dramatic literature smudged with greasepaint." Gradually Baker became dissatisfied even with teaching a course about modern dramatists. He was concerned with what could be written and done in the theater...
Medieval Ireland and Cornwall (The Enchanted Cup, by Dorothy James Roberts; Appleton-Century-Crofts). A tearful new version of the old Tristram-Isolde love story which in no way improves on the previous versions of Sir Thomas Malory, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Richard Wagner...
...year 1859 flares up in English literature like a volcanic eruption. In that one year were published (wholly or in part) Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Thackeray's The Virginians, George Eliot's Adam Bede, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Darwin's The Origin of Species, Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubciydt of Omar Khayyam. Almost ignored in the rush was a novel named The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, by one George Meredith. Today, nearly a century after, both Meredith and his Ordeal are still little more than names in an English...
Miss McNamara is a Shavian adolescent transplanted to American and come of age. She is an excellent cook; "cleanliness next to Godliness," she says, and subscribes to Tennyson's three virtues of faith, hope and chastity. Added to these is a charming sophistication; she speaks knowingly of a "mother instinct," and has gone to school of Freud and D. H. Lawrence...
...Peepshow (by F. Tennyson Jesse & H. M. Harwood) used an English love-triangle murder case, not in order to raise goose pimples, but to offer a slow-motion, 13-scene biography of the hanged but possibly innocent wife. The whole thing was so soporific that the opening-night audience could hear A Pin drop into limbo; there was no second performance...