... pronouncements, this is a flat-footed pro duction of Othello. To be straightforward with such a play and to allow the poetry to speak and sing for itself is permissible only in theory, yet it occasionally appears that that is precisely what Mr. Casper Wrede ...

... particu lar order or sequence hut with a cumulative effect as impossible to ignore as hammer blows. Baal is a poet who sings or speaks or growls his poems to the plinking of his guitar. He is also a drunkard, a lecher and a wanderer. He uses women and discards ...