# Lizzie Club Will Celebrate Elizabeth I Quadricentennial; Series of Lectures, Exhibits, Tudor Chamber Music Planned

by Herschel E. Post Jr.

In honor of the 400th anniversary of the accession of England's first Queen Elizabeth, Yale's Elizabethan Club has scheduled a full season of commemorative events, extending through the coming spring.

Leading off the schedule will be a Woodward Lecture Wednesday by Sir John Neale, the 20th century's acknowledged expert on the Elizabethan Age. For 21 years Astor professor of English history at the University of London, Sir John is also a trustee of the London Museum and an author of several books on Tudor England. He will speak on "Queen Elizabeth I" in the Sterling Library lecture room today at 4:30.

The second event of the series will feature a lecture by Harvard's J.N. Douglas Bush on the topic "Shakespeare: from Mythology to Myth" December 8. Professor Bush is the author of several books on English literature, his latest dealing with the literature of the early 17th century.

Lest the program emphasize the literary to the exception of all else, the Elizabethan Club has arranged for a concert of authentic Elizabethan music under the supervision of Beekman C. Cannon, associate professor of the history of music, and a special production of an Eliza-

bethan play by the Yale School of Drama in March.

In addition there will be an exhibition of Elizabethan books, maps and prints in the Sterling Library. A banquet in January to commemorate Elizabeth's coronation (which occurred in January of 1559) will premiere a new composition by Quincy Porter, professor of theory

of music and master of Pierson College. Programs of Elizabethan readings will complete the schedule.

The Lizzie--as the Elizabethan Club is familiarly known--has become a tradition on the Yale campus since its founding 47 years ago. Its present membership numbers

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This decidedly un-Tudor dwelling holds the distinction of being the location of the decidedly Tudor Elizabethan Club, sponsor of the 1958-1959 Yale commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I. ('Yale News' Photo)