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Gilbert Murray   /gˈɪlbərt mˈəri/   Listen
Gilbert Murray

noun
1.
British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957).  Synonyms: George Gilbert Aime Murphy, Murray.






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"Gilbert Murray" Quotes from Famous Books



... Farr has herself learnt and has taught others, to chant verse, in a manner between speaking and singing, to the accompaniment of the psaltery. Mr. Yeats has written and talked and lectured on the subject; and the experiment has been tried in the performances of Mr. Gilbert Murray's translation of the "Hippolytus" of Euripides. Here, then, is the only definite attempt which has been made in our time to regulate the speech of actors in their speaking of verse. No problem of the theatre is more important, for it is only by the quality of the verse, and by ...
— Plays, Acting and Music - A Book Of Theory • Arthur Symons



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