Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association records

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Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association records

1880-1989

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11648232

Houghton Library

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Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association (Cambridge, Mass.)

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The Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association (O.C.S.A) or Cambridge Shakespeare Club, as it has long been familiarly known, was founded in 1880 and formally organized two years later. It still meets to this day (2006). O.C.S.A. meetings were held fortnightly, on Tuesday evenings, from October through May. The principal business of these meetings was the dramatic reading of a Shakespeare play or other work. Plays were chosen (and abridged, if necessary) by a rotating three-member "casting committee;...