PROFESSOR KITTREDGE TO GIVE LECTURE SERIES ON SHAKESPERIAN TRAGEDIES

Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature in the University, will deliver a series of five lectures on the tragedies of Shakespeare in Sanders Theatre during the latter part of this month, it was announced yesterday. He will take up in this series Macbeth, Othello, Julius Caesar. King Lear, and Hamlet, and will analyze each tragedy from a critical point of view. The series is provided for by the Dowse Institute which was established for this purpose. Due to the Great War, the fund during the past few years was given to charity, but now, with that emergency past, the trustees of the Institute are perpetuating the custom.

Following are the dates and subjects of the lectures which are to be held at 8 o'clock in the evening in Sanders Theatre:

Tuesday, January 16.--Macbeth.

Friday, January 19.--Othello.

Tuesday, January 23.--Julius Caesar.

Friday, January 26.--King Lear

Tuesday, January 30.--Hamlet.

Admission will be free but by ticket. The latter may be obtained either by mail or by personal application at Phillips Brooks House.