Word: trojan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only other prose work in the number is Mr. W. H. Meeker's dramatic criticism of "Granville Barker's Greek Revivals." The criticism is scarcely more than a synopsis of the story "Iphigenia in Tauris," and the same of "Trojan Women," with a eulogy on Mr. Barker's work. The report of the Stadium production is interesting. A reader of the Advocate, however, must wish that Mr. Meeker would continue to write short stories like the one about the southern counterfeiter and the female crook in New York. Seldom does the Advocate print things so excellent as was that...
...these troubled days the production of one of the first "war plays" ever written, the "Trojan Women" of Euripides, is an especially timely one. Mr. Granville Barker, in his presentation of the great Euripidean drama, held in the Stadium yesterday afternoon, achieved a remarkable success. As Professor Gilbert Murray, the translator of the original text, says: "judged by common standards the 'Trojan Women' is far from a perfect play; it is scarcely even a good play," but it must be admitted that as a dramatic spectacle it is an impressive production. What little plot there is, is soon lost sight...
...Presentation of "Trojan Women" by Granville Barker in the Stadium...
...Iphigenia in Tauris," the first of the Greek plays to be produced under the management of Granville Barker and Lillah McCarthy, will be given in the Stadium tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock. Tickets for this and also for the performance of "Trojan Women" on Wednesday, at prices ranging from fifty cents to $2 are on sale at 174 Tremont street, Boston, at Herrick's, and at the Co-operative...
...give the opening performance of "Iphigenia in Tauris" there this evening. The company will leave for Boston immediately after this performance in order to prepare for the rehearsal in the Stadium on Monday. The first public performance here will be "Iphigenia in Tauris" to be given on Tuesday, while "Trojan Women" will be given on Wednesday. Tickets for these performances are on sale at Herrick's and the Co-operative...