SOURCE: A review of Gruach and Britain's Daughter, in Theatre Arts Magazine, Vol. VI, No. 4, October, 1922, p. 347.

The following review offers a positive assessment of Gruach and Britain's Daughter.

How large Mr. Bottomley's audience for his verse dramas is going to be, either in the theatre or in the library, will depend largely upon how many there are among the people who have the good fortune to come upon his work who, having visual imagination themselves, enjoy adding it to the imagination of a poet to recreate stories on great and universal tragic themes. Mr. Bottomley's audience must play his plays with him, to make them live. These are distinguished plays, with a strong personal quality, definitely superior to almost all of that mass of contemporary material being added to our stage literature, so much so that it is a temptation to speak extravagantly of them. But it...