Word: heartbreak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heartbreak House. Shaw's metaphorical portrait of pre-World War I English society, while too miscellaneous and uneven as a whole, offers often brilliant conversation, manifold wit and moments of wisdom. Maurice Evans, Pamela Brown, Diana Wynyard...
...Heartbreak House. Despite Shaw's sprawling treatment, this frankly symbolic picture of England's affluent society on the eve of the first World War is marvelous in bits and pieces. Maurice Evans, Pamela Brown, Diana Wynyard...
...Heartbreak House. Shaw's picture of Europe's pre-World War I leisure class, if wordy and sprawling, is also witty and brilliant, while several members of a cast that includes Maurice Evans, Pamela Brown, Diana Wynyard are brilliant...
...Heartbreak House. An uneven but often brilliant production of Shaw's uneven but often brilliant portrayal of "cultured, leisured Europe" before World War I. With Maurice Evans, Pamela Brown, Sam Levene, Diana Wynyard...
Despite its manifold wit and moments of wisdom, the plotless Heartbreak House drifts along with its people, and at times reflects their languor. This is partly because Shaw's ante-bellum England is not in itself a theme, but only a framework for one. Where Chekhov portrayed something dramatic, the death-indeed the suicide-of a class, Shaw caught, at most, the malaise of a country. Moreover, his characters are all so busy explaining what they suffer from that though they convey a forcible sense of diagnosis, they give off only the most feeble sense of disease...