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...Tis true...
Tableau: American Literature, personified, in a balcony. English Department, up a tree. Night. Am. Lit.: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not an "English Department...
...Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players have chosen, tis pity, to do Yeomen straight and uncut, complete with the overwritten first act and the overlong second. What they have done, they have done well, sometimes even brilliantly. If only they had done some editing as well...
...could take him farther than his head, he entered a blurry "transcendental" phase culminating in the Irish sojourn. In that "Victorian lagoon," even the fighting seemed unreal. He arrived at Cork terrified by a hail of machine-gun fire, only to be reassured by the urchin carrying his bag: " Tis only the boys from the hills." In Ireland he met his first true writers-Yeats and O'Casey among others-and he dreamed of becoming an "artist" whose art could be determined later...
...question remains, then: why is he at the Loeb? I talked with Mr. Vaughan last week after the opening of Tis Pity and was surprised at his directness on the subject. "It's a pedagogical experience, not an artistic one," but he seems to have enjoyed his contact with students in the play and those taking his non-credit acting seminar. "I find it pleasant to work with actors attuned to historical and intellectuals" of a work like 'Tis Pity . The same sort of response is, of course, shared by the largely academic audience at the Loeb, and Vaughan finds...