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...theaters. Brown himself emerged as a likely heir to the late Tyrone Guthrie, the swashbuckling repertory advocate who in 1958 moved to Minneapolis and fired up the U.S. regional-theater movement. Apart from the obligatory classics, Brown digs out such unlikely playwrights as D.H. Lawrence (The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd) and Maxim Gorky (Country People). "Gorky's plays are particularly interesting today. His people are activists, revolutionaries...
LYTTON STRACHEY, by Michael Holroyd. The madly eccentric life and odd times of the author of Eminent Victorians, overwhelmingly documented in 1,229 improbably fascinating pages...
LYTTON STRACHEY, by Michael Holroyd. The author of Eminent Victorians was undoubtedly the oddest duck on the Bloomsbury pond, a fact amply documented on nearly every one of the 1,229 fascinating pages of this two-volume biography...
Wherever possible, Holroyd allows Strachey to speak for himself, whether he was dropping Bloomsbury epigrams (on T. S. Eliot: "I fear it will take him a long time to become a letter writer"), or taking his place as the boldest public wit since Wilde. Strachey never hesitated to flaunt his homosexual inclina tions. His finest moment may have come during his court hearing as a conscientious objector in 1916, when he was asked what he would do if he saw a German soldier raping his sister. Strachey paused two beats, then remarked: "I would try to interpose my own body...
...Holroyd notes in his preface that "it may seem ironic that the life and work of Lytton Strachey should finally be commemorated by two fat volumes-that standard treatment of the illustrious dead that he was so effective in stamping out." Ironic it is, but not half so much as it would have been if his biographer had followed Strachey's example and given short shrift to one of the best subjects of this century...