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Since it appeared in 1924, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India has come to be recognized as one of the finest novels of the century. Given the possibilities in the book, it was perhaps inevitable that some one would write a play based upon it, and some one has, with astonishing results . Santha Rama Rau's stage adaptation of A Passage to India is-not to put too fine a point on matters-superb. She has taken only the hard, tight plot of the book and fashioned of it a play crackling with enormous, concentrated tension, an exciting...
Part of the reason why A Passage to India is such a great success as a play is that the novel is quite a different sort of achievement from anything else that Forster has written. It is a political and a social work, both the least personal and the most dramatically constructed of his novels. There is less creation, less imagining in it than you would expect from Forster, and more careful, studied understanding of what a people ruled by aliens is really like. If the message of Howard's End was that private relationships are all, that men must...
...stage. Sir Michael Redgrave lends luster to Graham Greene's otherwise mediocre The Complaisant Lover. John Mills is arriving this month in Ross, Terence Rattigan's play about Lawrence of Arabia, and Eric (Separate Tables) Portman is headed again for Broadway in an adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India...
...significant work is all concentrated in the ten-year span from 1920 to 1930. The novels after 1930, even the successful It Can't Happen Here and Kingsblood Royal, were jerry-built, and some of them were embarrassingly bad. E. M. Forster predicted his decline as early as Dodsworth; in an essay on Lewis called "A Camera Man," he wrote: "Photography is a pursuit for the young. So long as a writer has the freshness of youth on him, he can work the snapshot method, but when it passes he has nothing to fall back upon. It is here...
Amid the French furniture, Greek marbles and African carvings of London's Greek embassy, he and his statuesque blonde wife regularly entertain such philhellenic men of letters and personal friends as Lawrence Durrell, E. M. Forster, John Lehmann and Classicist Maurice Bowra...