Sights and Spectacles, 1937-1956 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Sights and Spectacles, 1937-1956 "It is to be hoped that Mr. Young will devote himself to one of Chekhov´s more mature plays." This insufferably patronizing sentence was written by me, eighteen years ago, in a review of Stark Young´s adaptation of The Sea Gull. The reader should be warned that he will come upon many such sentences in the early parts of this collection; he will have to bear with them, if he can, in the interests of the record. I have not tried to up-date my views or to rewrite passages that grate on my ear today. The only rewriting has been for the sake of clarity, where a topical reference has lost its meaning or where a passage has become obscure, even to me. What is heard in the early sections is the voice of a young, earnest, pedantic, pontificating critic. The judgments are harsh, though I do not, for the most part, disagree with them. What irritates me is the tone of cocksure, condescending cleverness. "The playwright assumes that his hero´s irresolution is of a tragic order while, as a matter of fact, it is comico-pathetic." It is the voice of a period, as well as that of a person. The period was 1937. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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