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The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War

By Max Byrd  • 

From its first appearance in the Harvard catalog in the fall of 1941, Perry Miller's English 274, "Romanticism in American


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'King Lear'

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Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear cannot be shown on a stage. But the final production


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King Lear

By Max Byrd  • 

Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear cannot be shown on a stage. But the final production


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Bate Gets Pulitzer For Book on Keats

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Walter Jackson Bate '39, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his biography


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The Harvard Review

By Max Byrd  • 

Anyone who discusses Perry Miller and his work, it seems, turns sooner or later to his metaphor of the New


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Look Back in Anger

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Half the credit for the power of "Look Back in Anger" belongs to Andreas Teuber; the rest of the credit


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She Wou'd If She Cou'd

By Max Byrd  • 

Well, drama has been restored to Dunster House; but not altogether. For the first half-hour or so, the dull air


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King Edward II

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In the third offering of the current Shakespeare-Marlowe Festival, Marlowe's "King Edward II," Director George Hamlin has chosen to present


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Endgame

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The fact that nobody can be quite certain what Endgame means is, in the logic of the theater of the


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Loeb Drama Festival Attracts 300

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Student response to the Loeb Shakespeare-Marlowe festival has been unprecedented, according to Daniel Seltzer, acting director of the Loeb Drama

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