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Critical Essay by Elsa Gress Wright
Dreyer himself has subtitled Gertrud "a period piece," and a period piece it is, rendered nostalgically and with tender irony. It is also, in his inte...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
[In "Gertrud"] Mr. Dreyer's theme—the suffering of a woman who finds that men do not devote themselves entirely to love, that they also ...
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Critical Essay by Don Skoller
[Gertrud tends] toward abstraction, and its method, as Dreyer wrote in 1955, is simplification. It is this simplification that, not "dug"—not grasped...
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Critical Essay by Elsa Gress Wright
