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...Collier's Friday Night (1909), The Daughter-in-Law (1912) and The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1914) are all set in the kitchens of proud, poverty-blighted Midlands coal-mining families like Lawrence's own; and all are variations on basic Lawrencian themes-the drunken father, the dominance of women, unrelenting intrafamily contests, and the devaluation of intimacy by privation. The plays are pure naturalism: the kitchen sink is never out of sight, and the weary labor of washing off the pit grime when the man comes home occurs in each of them. Yet, unlike the angry Osbornes...
...Gill, whose careful casting and slow, relentless holding of long silences allow the language to flower in the mind and the subtle relationships of these numb, dumb characters to take form. Seldom in years have London audiences sat so awed and hushed as at the final scene of Mrs. Holroyd, in which the coal-blackened body of a miner (Michael Coles), the victim of a pit accident, lies on the floor of his shack while his widow (Judy Parfitt) begins to wash him, keening to herself...
Other accounts have been written of Strachey, author of Eminent Victorians, but all of them, says Rees, have omitted his sexual preference- an ardent, lifelong homosexuality. The 1,229-page, two-volume biography by Michael Holroyd is long enough-and honest enough-to include much of Strachey's hitherto unpublished correspondence with John Maynard Keynes, a contemporary of his at Cambridge. The letters consist mostly of outpourings of enthusiasm for comely young men, for whose favors Strachey and Keynes strenuously competed. "It was a kind of intricate ballet of the affections," writes Rees, "in which Keynes, ruthless, serpentine...
...PETER R. HOLROYD Curate St. John's Parish Waterbury, Conn...
...CHARLES T. HOLROYD Rumford...