Rebellion and Rhetoric

The Life of the Drama by Eric Bentley. Atheneum Publishers, $5.95.
The Impossible Theater by Herbert Blau. The Macmillan Company, $10.00.
The Theatre of Revolt by Robert Brustein. Little, Brown and Company, $7.50.
Drama and Commitment by Gerald Rabkin. Indiana University Press, $6.00. 

In Edwin Justus Mayer’s brilliant comedy Children of Darkness, the wench Laetitia becomes exasperated with her lover and says, “You are like the Prince in the play you will read me so often, though it bores me: words, words, words! Answer me, La Ruse, one way or t’other.”