Word: tragedians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CHAINS-Theodore Dreiser-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Lesser novels and stories by the American Tragedian...
...Lawrence," said Dean Lowes in a statement to the CRIMSON, "is perhaps the most distinguished living authority upon the history of the English stage from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration. He has written on "The Life of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Tragedian," and on other theatrical figures, his chief volume being 'The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies,' published in 1912 and 1913. Since then important papers of his have appeared in the Modern Language Review, Studies in Philology, the Fortnightly Review, and in a number of other periodicals. Mr. Lawrence has no academic position, but is a private and independent...
...these slight ruffles he retained both his composure and his reticence. Grave, deliberate, costly, he has gone on utilizing the genius with which few who deify him as a thinker, apotheosize him as a tragedian, credit him the genius for being funny...
...Lawrence is perhaps the most distinguished living authority upon the history of the English stage from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration," declared Dean Lowes speaking of Mr. Lawrence's work and field. "He has written on 'The Life of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Tragedian,' and on other theatrical figures, his chief volume being 'The Elizabethan Playhouse and other Studies,' published in 1912 and 1913. Since then important papers of his have appeared in the Modern Language Review, Studies in Philology, the Fortnightly Review, and in a considerable number of other periodicals. Mr. Lawrence has no academic position...
...Open the window!" Moved by an unseen hand, the pane swung from the frost-rimmed sill. Then from the motley group stepped a man of older years, George R. Nutter, a Harvard graduate, President of the Boston Bar Association. Circumstances forced him to speak in the manner of a tragedian uttering an aside?addressing the 700, but speaking to the window. He urged Dean Pound to refuse the offer of the University of Wisconsin, asserted that it was to emphasize this request that the 700 stood in the cold beneath. Said he: "Dean Pound is making a choice between scholarship...