Word: themes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play is written in verse of great variety and striking effect and indeed its charm lies rather in well turned phrases and humorous situations than in any remarkable originality of plot. First produced in 1704, it is still a masterpiece on a theme now become almost trite...
...Beethoven overture we have a most striking contrast, for here the descriptive suggestion is not of the elements of the outward world, but of the emotions and passions of a human soul. The agitated opening theme strongly typifies the tempest-tossed soul of the hero, and the beautiful lyrical second theme, the supplicating appeals of his mother. The overture as a whole is doubtless a tone picture of a scene in the Volscian camp, before the gates of Rome, between Coriolanus, Volumnia, and Virgilia, which ends with the hero's, death...
Professor Samuel Henry Batcher, LL.D., will deliver the third of his series of lectures on "The Originality of Greece," in the Fogg Museum at 8 o'clock this evening, his subject being "The Greek Love of Knowledge." Upon this theme Dr. Butener has based his most ambitious work. "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine...
...child in reason, and prettily woos his "nymph" (who, by the way, as an oak-dweller ought to have been a "dryad") with pantheistic appeal. The rude Scythian shepherd of Marlowe, brooding upon the unattainable, has grown "very weary" of his life,' and meditates upon the theme of vanity with the unction of a Stephen Phillips. And his rough soldiers as they march, sing with Shellevan opulence of fancy...
...bare where it might have been convincing; and it is difficult to determine whether "Upon Thy Children's Children" is or is not farce. The latter begins rather effectively with an Indian legend and ends with an entirely obvious and uninteresting love story, apparently intended to illustrate the ancient theme of the legend. "The Ambassador" is clever, light, and decidedly amusing. Without it the number would be a comparative failure; as it is, Mother Advocate turns into the road for a new volume with at least one good step forward...