 ... moreover, from my dwelling on the pettiness and sordidness of motive which reign throughout, that the whole effect of the play is unpleasant. Mr Shaw's cynicism is not in the least splenetic ; on the contrary, it is imperturbably good-humoured and...  Plays of the Present - Էջ 13John Bouvé Clapp, Edwin Francis Edgett - 1902 - 331 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | William Archer - 1895 - 476 էջ
...contrary, it is imperturbably good-humoured and almost amiable. And amid all his irresponsible nonsense, he has contrived, generally in defiance of all dramatic...repress his irrelevant whimsicality, try to clothe his character-conceptions in flesh and blood, and realise the difference between knowingness and knowledge.... | |
 | William Archer - 1895 - 474 էջ
...contrary, it is imperturbably good-humoured and almost amiable. And amid all his irresponsible nonsense, he has contrived, generally in defiance of all dramatic...repress his irrelevant whimsicality, try to clothe his character-conceptions in flesh and blood, and realise the difference between knowingness and knowledge.... | |
 | J. L. Styan - 1981 - 224 էջ
...if Shaw did dwell 'on the seamy side to the exclusion of all else'; but Archer added encouragingly, 'I begin positively to believe that he may one day write a serious and even an artistic play.' The Star thought the play 'enormously amusing, if slightly perplexing. . . One does not always see... | |
 | T. F. Evans - 1997 - 442 էջ
...contrary, it is imperturbably goodhumoured and almost amiable. And amid all his irresponsible nonsense, he has contrived, generally in defiance of all dramatic...repress his irrelevant whimsicality, try to clothe his character-conceptions in flesh and blood, and realise the difference between knowingness and knowledge.... | |
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