Potted Plays
AS it Professor Sinclaire, some years ago, who prophesied that we should soon be having potted literature, on the analogy of potted operas and symphonies, and denounced the prospect? At all events, the BBC has been and gone and done it, in a recorded series entitled "Chapter and Verse"; and after hearing Marlowe's Dr. Faustus treated in this manner (3YA, Sunday, December 3) I regret to say that I approve. There seems to me little wrong with presenting bits of a play to those who may never hear the whole, but clearly only some plays, and those of the rather shapeless and unsubtle sort to which Faustus belongs, are suitable. If anyone tries to give the essence of Hamlet or Paradise Lost, I shall certainly join Professor Sinclaire (was it?) on the mourner’s bench,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 286, 15 December 1944, Page 8
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136Potted Plays New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 286, 15 December 1944, Page 8
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