Portrait of a Jurist
PORTRAIT of Sir Edward Coke, a BBC feature by H. A. L. Craig, proved to be a well-constructed impression of the great English jurist, rather than a biography. We were cleverly introduced to Coke by his wife, the chief witness and a hostile one; but as the programme proceeded we were given a very different picture of the man, which stood out vividly against the background of domestic disharmony. The language of this feature was less successful, I felt. The use of verse by a master is a pleasure; but in the hands of anyone less gifted, every limp, every strained-for rhyme becomes so glaringly obvious that one’s mind receives a jolt for many lines.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 726, 12 June 1953, Page 11
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119Portrait of a Jurist New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 726, 12 June 1953, Page 11
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