20 NOVEMBER 1953, page 41

The Monstrous Ransom

Shakespeare's " Measure for Measure." By Mary Lascelles, (University of London. Athlone Press. 15s.) NOT very long ago Measure for Measure, ill common with Troilus and Cressida......

Talk . About Laugh - "tim Ingredients May Not Be New,

but the hand that mixes them is as steady and deft as ever" is the kind of stuff 'it may be difficult to choke back on opening Thurber Country and greeting the same pop-eyed......