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re: "The Laziness of Bernard Shaw"

Posted by:	singleticket 06:23 am EDT 05/06/15
In reply to:	re: "The Laziness of Bernard Shaw" - garyd 02:24 am EDT 05/06/15

Those are some interesting begats but Hamilton is talking about theatrical form not literary theme. He's saying Shaw had a great gift of dialogue but the dramatic form of his later plays is mushy (I happen to agree). Hamilton is an admirer of CANDIDA, ARMS AND THE MAN and YOU NEVER CAN TELL. The pleasure of reading a forgotten American critic like Hamilton is stumbling on an opinion that contradicts a consensus that has accumulated over a hundred years. I had never heard of Clayton Hamilton when I found a copy of SEEN ON STAGE. I'm enjoying it very much because the criticism is astute and it resists an easy partisanship with conservatism or the avant-garde.

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