Power-Seeker
Frank Kermode, 12 October 1989
Bernard Shaw. Vol. II: The Pursuit of Power
by Michael Holroyd.
Chatto, 422 pp., £18, September 1989,0 7011 3350 3 Show More
by Michael Holroyd.
Chatto, 422 pp., £18, September 1989,
“... another, and, nearer home, Gilbert Murray and the lecherous, contentious and extremely able Wells). He worked heroically to keep the Court Theatre going, to overthrow the stage censorship, to educate the public in all ethical, civic and artistic affairs. He feuded with Irving, debated with Chesterton. He bought, drove and crashed dangerous ... ”