SSTC Named Critics

• Named Critics -

  Maybank

  Bubb

  Kropf

  Evans

  Kibberd

  Prentki
• Maybank - ‘The play presents the values of city life and the countryside as deeply at odds with each other.’
• Maybank - ‘Their upper-class sense of entitlement at first asserts itself. They whinge, they judge, they show contempt for everything; but the manor house slowly emasculates them.’  (Marlow and Hastings)
• Bubb - ‘…by taking Londoners out of the city and putting them into the alien territory of the country, the playwright is able to create the perfect conditions for confusion and comic catastrophe.’
• Kropf - ‘The play is conspicuously silent on matters of class and wealth.’
• Evans -  ‘As Marlow finds his new social identity between the reserve and impudence of urban masculinity, Kate Hardcastle provides the example and the means for his reform.’
• Kibberd - ‘Marlow’s mistake [...] could only have been made in a transitional society where there was real fluidity of movement between the social classes.’
• Prentki - ‘Tony commutes between all classes and remains himself, but the world around him is continuing to fragment into ever widening divisions of class, taste, fashion and economic opportunity.’