John Guare | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of John Guare.

John Guare | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of John Guare.
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[John Guare] is a naturally comic writer whose indications of high spirits and an original turn of mind are all but muffled by Brechtian tricks and by the plastic pranks, the empty conventions, and the all-round hooey of "America Hurrah." (p. 91)

There are funny ideas and funny scenes scattered through ["Muzeeka"]…. But Mr. Guare keeps insisting on the significance of things that he does nothing to make significant … and his generalizations about America have a weak, second-hand ring to them. (pp. 91-2)

Edith Oliver, "Mr. Lowell and Mr. Haigh," in The New Yorker (© 1968 by the New Yorker Magazine, Inc,), Vol. XLIV, No. 12, May 11, 1968, pp. 85-6, 91-2.∗

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