Enid Bagnold | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of Enid Bagnold.

Enid Bagnold | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of Enid Bagnold.
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[A Matter of Gravity] is not so much a play … as a series of patches from several plays that connect only in having the same cast in each. One patch concerns an elderly woman, crusty and conservative (in all but her apparent passion for heavy green eye shadow), going somewhat to pieces at her grandson's marriage to a girl of partially black parentage: proposition, conflict, and, need we add, reconciliation. Another concerns the housemaid of said grandmother, a slovenly sort, but given to levitation, and the grandmother's decision to join the maid in a mental institution so that she, too, can learn to levitate. (I am not making this up.) A third concerns the breakup of two homosexual matings, one male and one female, identical in their May-December configurations and in the clumsy self-delusions of both Decembers….

There is no pace to Ms. Bagnold's play, no movement, no...

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