The Latin play at Harvard

J. B. (James Bradstreet) Greenough

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THE LATIN PLAY AT HARVARD. By B. iGreenoug/i. J. {!!lustratrd/rcin rhologrnphs by Pack Brothrrs.) while they scorn the other heathen writ- ings, yet read the poems of Terence all frequently." The consequences oftoo this pernicious practice she proceeds (in her preface) to describe, and notes the advantages of her purified imitations, which were on biblical and martyrologi- cal subjects. It is not asserted that any of her pieces nor of those which they were to supersede were really played in her convent or elsewhere ; but the fact are singledthat these plays of Terence out especially, when plays are of all reading,literature the least adapted to taken with the subsequent history of such 'v the performance of a Latin playFOR Collegeby the students of Harvard there have certainly been plenty\ precedents, custom ofof inasmuch as the such representations in schools, both for instruction and is trace-entertainment, able far into the Middle .-^ges. About Roswitha, Benedictine980, a nun of Gandersheim, a most learned lady, wTote six comedies in imitation of "Terence, because, as she says, There are many good Christians who prefer the empty show of heathen works to the advantages of the Holy Scriptures on account moreof the superiority of a cultivated language. There are besides others who,also, diligent Bible readers, *This illustration and those on pages 498 and 502 are re- produced from the libretto of the play, by permission of the 'O, 3. KCbRRTS).

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• Harvard University
• Présentation

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 5
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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