Word: tyrannus
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...interested in the study of elocution to-day at 2 p.m. in Holdon Chapel. Mr. Hayes, although coming from Cornell, has been long and favorably known to Boston audiences as a public reader. He filled the role of the priest, by special invitation, in the representation of Oedipus Tyrannus both here and in Boston. Mr. Hayes's work at Cornell, was in the highest degree successful it being a prescribed portion of the work of all speakers appointed by the faculty. It is to be hoped that the gentleman will receive the most cordial support in his work...
Those who witnessed the performance of the "Oedipus Tyrannus" of Sophocles in Sanders a few years ago, and indeed all who are in any way acquainted with the Greek drama will be interested in hearing of the recent presentation at Cambridge, England, of Aeschylus' "Eumenides...
Several years ago the stage of Sanders Theatre was utilized to represent the stage of a Greek theatre in the time of Sophocles. Next Monday evening the Shakspere Club will upon it undertake a task which is second in its difficulty only to the representation of Oedipus Tyrannus. Great labor has been expended upon the stage fittings of the play, and if success is deserved by hard and conscientious work the Shakspere Club need not fear for the success of their great venture. The peculiar formation of the stage in Sanders was found to be a great drawback...
...college societies. But when the club undertook to present to the public a Shakespearean play it undertook a labor of which the difficulty can be imagined but by few. The novelty of the idea at once carried the mind back to the representation of the Oedipus Tyrannus. But in comparing the proposed management of the representation of Julius Caesar with that of the Greek play, much dissatisfaction has been expressed that the students are not to be allowed the same privileges at the coming representation as they were at that of the Oedipus. In the case of the latter...
...fact that Prof. Jebb, of Glasgow University, will deliver the oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at its regular annual meeting next Thursday, lends especial interest to his new edition of Sophocles, of which the first volume, containing the Oedipus Tyrannus, is already out. This edition, which is to be completed in eight volumes, one for each play, with an additional volume devoted to the fragments and supplementary matter, is the result of a long cherished design on the part of the editor, to embody in a single work all that is necessary for a study of his author...