Maugham Character
[HE CONSTANT WIFE is trivial, but a tour de force. In the role of Constance, Margaret Lockwood achieved considerable stature without surrendering appeal, and managed to hold the play together much as the sun does the solar system. The other characters were almost Wodehousian in their trueness to form and to period-particularly husband John, playing the heavy-handed surgeon, and given lines like "A terrible operation-you start cutting and you don’t know where to stop," and his inamorata ("I know I behaved like a beast but I never thought you'd find out’), For all its trappings of farce (and enjoyable farce) this is a very shrewd play. Somerset Maugham has given Constance all the qualities usually preempted for the male sex-humour, logic, and inability to take things personally -and created a character that I couldn't take my ears off.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 11
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140Maugham Character New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 11
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