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Growing Dissension At The Court

Joan Plowright THE ROYAL COURT THEATRE by Philip Roberts Routledge and Kegan Paul, £18.95 T hirty or more years ago serious stud- ents of the theatre were still burying their......

A Shadowy Destabilising Figure

J. L. Carr JOTTINGS OF A GENIUS by Dennis Peck The Woodstock Press, f6.95 T his splendidly entitled work is a dis- tillation of more than 50 large notebooks filled during 30......