Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...successful in lyric poetry; naturally it was least so on the stage. Classic tragedy was dead. Shakespeare and Schiller were used as models. Mme. de Stael wrote "L'Allemagne," Stendhal wrote "Racine et Shakespeare." Victor Hugo in his "Preface de Cromwell" defined the drama as a mixture of the tragic and the comic with an historic stage setting and with out the three unities. But these are not the real signs of the romantic drama. In fact there was a style of play which was increasing in popular favor as tragedy declined; this was the melodrama. Romantic drama is merely...
...only natural that the friends who have been impressed by the pure life and tragic death of Marshall Newell should come here to think of him. Each year turns out from the mass of youths at this University, leaders, pure, modest and masculine characters. Marshall Newell was one of these-the true type of man. Though poor and with but few acquaintances, from the very beginning he made friends. Reserved, yet companionable-true to the type of wholesome, single-hearted men, he was one of those who leaven our life and whose memory the College rejoices to foster. His character...
...With tragic suddenness, all this is snatched away and we are left to wonder how it is that such a man be taken out of a world that needed him. The ways of death are hard to interpret, but two things we know and it is well to recall them. The work of a man's life is in its depth, not in its length; in its quality not in its quantity. He might have lived to build a railroad, to be a useful citizen or to have a happy home, but one thing we know, though it had been...
Miss Cushing shows a fine conception of the title role and artistic ability to act a tragic part, not usual in an amateur. Her accent is as good as that of any one in the company except Mr. La Meslee, of the French Department, who plays Abner...
...summer and all of them have been hard at work rehearsing with Professor de Sumichrast for the past month. Twenty-five Radcliffe students are to take part in the play. A few have minor parts and the rest form the chorus, which Racine uses very much as the Greek tragic chorus. The rehearsals of the chorus are held at Radcliffe and at the house of Professor de Sumichrast. Two divisions have been formed from the Harvard undergraduates in the play, and these have been rehearsing on alternate days...