Book Reviews
Spring 1959
Theatre: Its Secondary Literature
The Passionate Playgoer: A Personal Scrapbook edited by George Oppenheimer. Viking Press. $5.95. Play Within a Play by Robert J. Nelson. Yale University Press. $4.00. The Broken Compass: A Study […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1958
Jewish Stories
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud. Garrar, Straus & Cudahy. $3.75 Altogether too many points require to be made about Bernard Malamud and his stories. He tells, straightforwardly and naturally, […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1958
Theatre Letter II
A few years ago Walter Kerr expounded the view that the dramatist’s concern with speaking out was the curse of the modern theatre; he contends that Ibsen and his heirs […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1957
Drama for People Who Know Everything
Playbook: Five Plays For A New Theatre. New Directions. $3.75. From The Modern Repertoire: Series Three edited by Eric Bentley. Indiana University Press. $7.50. At a time when Broadway offers […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1956
O’Casey
The Green Crow by Sean O’Casey. George Braziller. $3.95. When Yeats wrote to Sean O’Casey to reject The Silver Tassie for the Abbey Theatre, he ended his letter with […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1954
American Comedy
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow. Viking. $4.50. Indelibly and exhaustively, The Adventures of Augie March traces a richly comic pattern of aspiration and disaster. It is a […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1954
Orwell the Edwardian
Such, Such Were The Joys by George Orwell. Harcourt. $3.50. One more posthumous volume of George Orwell’s essays is a new reminder that Orwell was always, equally, a social historian […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1953
Romance of an Intellectual
Bernard Shaw And Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence edited by Alan Dent. Knopf. $5.00. Shaw’s Cæsar transforms a child of sixteen into a woman. In his correspondence with Stella Campbell, […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1952
Theatre Letter
Dramatists who write with Broadway in mind have more and more abandoned the traditional forms of realistic drama in favor of plays that, whatever their ostensible subject, are full of […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1951
Theatre Letter
Even a fairly satisfactory Broadway season produces few original American plays worth any consideration. In examining this season’s list, we can safely eliminate most of the plays winnowed away by […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1950
Theatre Letter
We often hear that our age discourages heroism. Joseph Wood Krutch, in The Modern Temper, has gauged our loss of the heroic idea; in A Century of Hero-Worship, Eric Bentley […]