The Trojan Women

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          <ptr target="ukred-31856">"Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.&lt;br/&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Dorothea Taylor in the Chair. &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard gave some account of Athens in 
the fifth century B.C. &amp;mdash; the history from the victory over the Persians, through the 
tyranny of the Athenian Empire, the degradation of standards, to the fall of the 
city; &amp;amp; in the realm of thought, the coming of the questioning spirit typified by the 
sophists, Socrates &amp; Euripides. &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
2. A reading from ‘The Trojan Women’ was given by Elizabeth Alexander &amp; Mary E. 
Robson, in the characters of Cassandra &amp; Hecuba. &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
3. Leslie Scott, in general comments on the poet’s quality and philosophy, noted 
his contradictory reputations &amp;mdash; serious or the reverse, nationalist or idealist? With 
Dr. Verrall &amp;amp; Gilbert Murray, his popularity had grown immensely. He is accused 
of lack of restraint, but he is human. His pathos is moving, even if occasionally 
overdrawn. He breaks through stage conventions, his characters are mixed, &amp;amp; 
reveal inner conflict. He is at his best with women, though regarded at times as a 
woman-hater, at others as a pioneer of her emancipation. It is almost certain that 
he deliberately ridicules the Gods. [...] &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
4. Muriel Stevens took Iphigenia, C. E. Stansfield Orestes, &amp;amp; F. E. Pollard Pylades, 
from the Iphigenia in Tauris &amp;mdash; the recognition scene. &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
5. Mary S. W. Pollard as Andromache, &amp;amp; S. A. Reynolds as Talthybius, read the 
tragic scene from the Trojan Women, when it is told to his mother that the little 
boy Astyanax is to be killed: &amp;amp; &lt;br/&gt;
6. Hecuba’s lament for her grandchild was read by Mary E. Robson. &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
7. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was deferred. &lt;br/&gt;
[...] &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;[signed] Reginald H. Robson &lt;br/&gt;
19. 5. 1939"</ptr>
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