SOURCE: A review of Gruach and Britain's Daughter, in The Yale Review, Vol. XII, No. 1, October, 1922, p. 194.

In the following excerpt, Firkins reviews Gruach and Britain's Daughter.

Mr. Gordon Bottomley in his early British plays [in Gruach and Britain's Daughter] takes us so very far in so short a time that we are surprised to perceive that in a much longer time he has taken us so very little farther. He is shaggy where Mr. Yeats is threadlike, and there is a good growl in his verse, which, however, shows itself less and less susceptible of reduction to a tune. Britain's Daughter, the second play, hardly counts, but in Gruach, a story of the Shakespearean Macbeths in the pre-Shakespearean moment of their first meeting and almost instant troth-plight, the signals and harbingers of power are as irresistible as ever. Gruach, the future Lady Macbeth, is very well indeed...