Word: author
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most gothic romancers, Author Oates puts her really sinister touches of evil into her stage setting rather than her characters. The villain in the end is that old devil, bad environment. Trapped in an imitation-British boys' school among 13-year-old alcoholics-wizened little gnomes like himself-Richard joins his parents a little prematurely as one of the "doomed" and "damned...
...author, a former journalist, is said to have been "a full-time member of the circle she re-creates so vividly," but her novel reads as if it had been re searched in back numbers of Modern Romances. All the women's-fiction cliches are present: men are "movie-hero tall and handsome"; there is nearly as much obstetrics as sex; crises arise from the misbehavior of children and the absence of husbands at birthday parties. Teddy White would never recognize the politics, although anybody over 13 should have no trouble recognizing the personnel...
...Author Rennert's is the reality behind Camelot, stick with the myth...
...were held together by their refusal to become the mute weighers of evidence that a proprietous respect for their profession demanded they be. They never pretend that the subject matter can speak for itself. "A work of history," Heimert says, "takes its coherence from the artistic skill of the author." When they write about the past, longing to become an age, they are creating themselves and history at the same time...
...conventions according to which it was written. He has emancipated it only from a narrow theatrical orthodoxy which insists on treating all plays of a given place and period alike, whose loyalty is to a set of rules empirically drawn from history rather than to the will of an author as unfolded in his work. Above and beyond this considerable accomplishment, Mayer's modern-dress treatment of Euripedes' classic is all-told the most intoxicating thing launched these last few years on a Boston stage...