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Show Mile High City 147 American legends included the Song of Hugh Glass by John G. Neihardt (1915), a tale of a Western trapper in Yellowstone who was injured by a grizzly and abandoned by Jim Bridger with the approach of hostile Indians; and John Brown's Body by Steven Vincent Benet (1928), a long narrative poem of the Civil War. During the second year they studied the literature relating to legendary English history: the story of Geraint and Enid, The Last Tournament, and the Passing of Arthur in Tennyson's Idyll of the King. The story of Tristram and Iseult, a tale of old England and Ireland; and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. A third year they studied early drama: Aeschylus, Agamemnon; Sophocles, Oedipus the King; French farce; Italian comedies; puppet plays, and a lesson on Interludes, plays that were per formed at Court, in the halls of the nobles, at banquets, and in colleges in the 15th and 16th century. They also discussed the early scholar poets (Norton and Sackville) who wrote Gorboduc, one of the earliest English tragedies; Poema del Cid, a 12th century Spanish poem; John Lyly (1554-1606) who wrote The Anatomy of Wit, Endimion, Midas, Sapho and Phao, and other early British comedies; and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (1604), the first dramatization of the medieval legend of a man who sold his soul to the Devil. In the annual creative meeting in May, Madelyn delighted those attending by singing "The Farmer's Boy," the song she had sung so many times at the summer Stewart Ranch bonfire. In 1937-38 there were lesson presentations on Elizabethan and Restoration Theatre: Shakespeare's As You Like It, and Henry the VIIIth; The Plain Dealer (1677) by William Wycherley, a satire; Cato, a tragedy by Addison (1713); Faust by Goethe; She Stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith; Barber of Seville by Beaumarchais; and French theater, including works of Emile Augier, Alexander Dumas, Victorien Sardou; and "The Price of life" by Augustine Scribe. The next year they studied the works of Henrick Ibsen, Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, James Barrie's "What Every Woman Knows," and "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde. |
