Too Much Evidence
O me, "Richard III-a Study in Historical Evidence," suffered from being a study in historical evidence. It is impossible to whip up much dramatic conflict in a dialogue between a layman asking merely for information and a gloatingly conscientious historian playing a game of noughts and crosses with the evidence and far too wily to let either side get a whole line of anything. However, I did appreciate the incidental drama. Kenneth Firth positively threw himself into the negative role of Layman, the Historian achieved the dryness of sherry rather than long-weekend bread, and the soliloquies from Shakespeare’s Richard were done with a power that made the flesh creep and the rafters quiver. But I, enrolled for Richard at an early age by Marjorie Bowen’s Dickon, fortified quite recently by Josephine Tey’s Daughter of Time (both I admit fictional) cannot be expected to be wholly enthusiastic about a programme that makes a virtue of
fence-sitting.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 757, 22 January 1954, Page 8
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160Too Much Evidence New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 757, 22 January 1954, Page 8
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