Word: trojan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This year, with restraint which is unparalleled, we have refrained. The reason may not be ascribed to the German War, the income tax, or the high cost of paper. It was simply that we hit upon the conclusion that our Cassandran prophecy of imminent catastrophe fell upon deaf and Trojan ears...
...chorus have been assigned two lyrical passages which serve to break up the regular rounds of speeches by the three friends and Job's responses. At the beginning of the play occurs a colloquy between the Lord and The Adversary similar to that between Athene and Poseidon in "The Trojan Women" or to that of Apollo and Death in the "Alkestis," and with this is presented Job's calamity as a forceful prologue to the suffering caused later. In the debate that follows Job in his agony rejects the theology he had inherited. Gradually he works out for himself...
...prologue and an epilogue recited by the choregus, who is the leader of the chorus during the progress of the drama. Settings for the play are designed in the modern fashion, patterned to some extent after those used by Granville Barker in his production of Euripides' "The Trojan Women" in the Stadium a year...
...Book of Job" will be staged to a large extent in accordance with the modern idea of scenic art, as worked out by Granville Barker in his production of "The Trojan Women" last year. There will be a large Greek chorus, and the play will have a prologue and an epilogue. There are six characters in the drama: Job, his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar, Elihu, and Satan...
Among the most noted of his Greek productions were "The Trojan Women" and "Iphagenia in Tauris," seen in the Stadium last spring...