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Irving Kreutz

Reviews: Dickens and Some Others: Special Review Section

Summer 1965

Collage

By Irving Kreutz

Collage Taken Care Of: An Autobiography by Edith Sitwell. Atheneum Publishers, $5.95. We do not regret that most of the very greatest writers did not leave behind them extensive autobiographies, […]

Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment

Winter 1963

L. P. Hartley, Who Are U? Or: Luncheon in the Lounge

By Irving Kreutz

In their light-hearted investigation into “the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy”—Noblesse Oblige1—the distinguished collaborators, with their careful drawing of the line between U and non-U speech, pay little attention […]

Book Reviews

Autumn 1962

The Play as a Poem

By Irving Kreutz

The Play As A Poem: KING LEAR and TWELFTH NIGHT. Recorded by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. Directed by George Rylands under the auspices of the British Council. […]

Book Reviews

Autumn 1959

But Is It Drama?

By Irving Kreutz

The Third Voice: Modern British And American Verse Drama by Denis Donoghue. Princeton. $5.00.   T. S. Eliot has confessed rather touchingly that he turned to writing plays because he […]