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Critical Essay by Walter F. Kerr
The dramatist who would convey one of the essential secrets of her play by having two of her characters sit down in the second act and simply ask one another twenty qu...
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Critical Essay by Richard Watts, Jr.
It was my disturbing impression [while watching "The Chalk Garden"],… that Enid Bagnold, its author, had perhaps written the wrong play. She i...
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Critical Essay by Kenneth Tynan
Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden … may well be the finest artificial comedy to have flowed from an English (as opposed to an Irish) pen since the death of ...
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Critical Essay by Walter F. Kerr
