POETASTER BY BEN JONSON

Those who witnessed the three performances of the satirical comedy "Poetaster" by Ben Jonson on Friday evening, December 1st and Saturday afternoon and evening, December 2nd, were well repaid. The play under the personal direction of Mr. William Poel, founder and director of the Elizabethan Stage Society of London England, and acted by the students of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, afforded an opportunity to see an Elizabethan play accurately produced after the manner of those days. One finds new charm in the plays of Ben Jonson's greatest contemporary, Shakespeare, after witnessing this performance presented in all the simplicity of the time, when emphasis was placed on the lines of the poet rather than on the setting. The appeal was solely in the beauty and accuracy of the costumes and in the spoken word, and the audience went away satisfied, feeling that they had gotten close to the creative spirit of the poetry of Queen Elizabeth's golden age.