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Jean Anouilh: Critical Review by Harold Clurman

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Jean Anouilh
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SOURCE: Clurman, Harold. “Theatre.” Nation, New York, N.Y., (27 May 1961): 467-68.

In the following review, Clurman derides the acting in the 1961 New York production of Becket and asserts that the play is “intellectually (as well as historically) skimpy; of true religious sentiment there is barely a trace, and its morality is without real commitment.”

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