BARRY RUSSELL
[The Churchill Play] is not, in the strictest sense, a 'documentary': Brenton's vision is too personal, and perhaps too romantic, for that. Certainly, there are reconstructions…. But these glances into the past, like the more substantial projection forward into the future which gives the play its circumstantial basis, are merely elements in a metaphor which Brenton develops in order to comment on our present. The historic image is poeticised.
The metaphor rests squarely on the idea that just as certain forms of VD can develop unnoticed in the...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1985 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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