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Christmas Books

Fantee Shakespeare BY RONALD BRYDEN A FANTEE Shakespeare.' It was Shaw who coined the phrase for O'Neill, obviously with The Emperor Jones in mind, ignorant of The Iceman......

Working With Impotence

Samuel Beckett : A Critical Study. BY H ugh Kenner. (John Calder, 30s.) Beckett and Behan and a Theatre in Dublin. BY Alan Simpson. (Routledge, I8s.) A LQT of the trouble begins......

Schmaltz With Everything

The Harry Golden Omnibus. By Harry Golden. (Cassell, 21s.) ON the main street of what used to be Montreal's working-class ghetto there is a popular, ex- tremely expensive......