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...comedies are fair-minded but not very exciting. Herschel Baker's pieces are eloquent though they concentrate on literary influence rather than discussion of character. The essays by Frank Kermode bear all the marks of a penetrating intelligence hamstrung by external restrictions. This sense of containment is clearest in Lear, where Kermode seems to feel required to beg the whole question of literary interpretation and retreat to the view that since Shakespeare's audience was Christian, we can safely assume the play does not mean what it says. Kermode was not so cautious when he edited his brilliant Signet edition...
...long line of antic British bestiary writers-Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, A.A. Milne, Kenneth Grahame, J.R.R. Tolkien-must now be added Richard Adams, Oxford graduate, British army veteran and recently resigned assistant secretary in the Department of the Environment. This talking-rabbits novel, his first, was rated flayrah ("unusually good food, e.g., lettuce") by the palates of English readers, who made it a bestseller and called it a classic-to-be. How will American readers like their existential Peter Rabbit? Probably less...
...York Times correspondent at the Fischer-Spassky title match in Reykjavik in 1972, and he devotes nearly 50 of 300 pages to Bobby. Schonberg is more a victim to Bobby than Spassky. Fischer, he writes, was "party to the most hysterical theatrics since the great days of King Lear." Fischer represents "psychic murder." Part of a player who loses to Fischer "has been devoured, and he is that much less a whole...
...promise than polish. Its rules are truly democratic: all decisions about repertory and casting are made by vote. Butto keep chaos from the door -the director of each production has the usual artistic control. That divided authority may explain the unevenness of the fare. The blasted heath of King Lear would seem to be a British company's natural territory; instead, Shakespeare provides their weakest evening. In Chekhov's Russia, on the other hand, they are at home and even offer some accommodation to R.D. Laing'spsychic tangles...
There is an authority in Sendak's line detail and composition that permits comparison with such illustrators as John Tenniel and Edward Lear. His Grimm pictures draw on a tradition that encompasses not only the lessons of 15th and 16th century engraving but the lyricism of English illustrators of the 1860s. There is even a personal touch. The stocky shapes and inward gaze of some of Sendak's bearded peasants suggest the vanished rural world of Polish Jewry that Sendak's father migrated from early in the century...