Robertson Davies (1913-1995) enjoyed a distinguished career as a journalist, playwright, and novelist, helping to enhance the literary standing of his native Canada.Robertson Davies was a writer of gr...
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Critical Essay by Judith Skelton Grant
That there is a market in these days of tight publishing budgets for a bibliography of works by and on Robertson Davies, a study of his plays, and a collection o...
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Critical Essay by Arnold Edinborough
Marchbanks' Almanack, recorded once more by Samuel Marchbanks' devoted amanuensis, Robertson Davies, is just as funny, just as witty and just as wise...
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Critical Essay by Walter E. Swayze
Included [in One Half of Robertson Davies: Provocative Pronouncements on a Wide Range of Topics] are aspects of Davies' personal life and habits, beliefs and ...
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Critical Essay by Joyce Carol Oates
[The] experience of reading One Half of Roberston Davies was enlightening—I was forced to realize how close, how astonishingly close, colossal vanity is to p...
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Critical Essay by Sam Solecki
Discussions of Davies' first three novels—the so-called Salterton trilogy—tend to emphasize his comic and satiric vision. By contrast, criticism and ...
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Critical Essay by John Harris
In the main, the heroes and heroines of Robertson Davies' novels, the characters through whom he chooses to tell his stories, are scholars. They are also pedants. ...
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Critical Essay by Patricia Monk
Davies' work reveals a progressive attempt to define human identity in the fullest possible sense. In the development of his work from Shakespeare's Boy A...
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[In the following essay, which was based on an interview with Davies, Farnsworth presents the novelist's views on Canadian culture and politics.]
When American invaders crossed the Niagara fron...
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[Gussow is an American journalist, nonfiction writer, and critic. In the following essay, which was based on an interview with Davies, Gussow discusses Davies's career and most recent novel, Th...
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[In the following obituary, Gross and Turner provide an overview of Davies's life and career.]
Robertson Davies, one of Canada's most celebrated novelists and the master of multiple, ecl...
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[In the following obituary, Flint focuses on Davies's works, noting his concern with themes of morality, evil, myth, love, and death.]
Robertson Davies, the novelist, journalist and educator wh...
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[Bailey is an English-born journalist, nonfiction writer, novelist, and critic. In the review below, he discusses Murther & Walking Spirits, remarking on the unexpected turns in Davies's pl...
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[Scheick is an American educator and critic. In the review below, he comments favorably on Murther & Walking Spirits.]
The narrator of Robertson Davies's new novel [Murther & Walking Sp...
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[In the following favorable review of Reading and Writing, Fuller praises Davies's various insights into literary creation and appreciation.]
"Nobody ever reads the same book twice...
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[Colegate is an English novelist and critic. In the review below, she praises Davies's handling of character and first-person narration in The Cunning Man.]
Robertson Davies's new novel ...
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[In the following mixed review of The Cunning Man, Kaveney argues that while Davies may be reactionary in his ideological orientation, he has an "exemplary sense" of how "ordinary...
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[In the following review, Baker comments favorably on The Cunning Man.]
It is the morning of Good Friday, and the Mass of the Pre-Sanctified is in progress in Toronto, at St Aidan's, a church s...
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William Robertson Davies
