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The Theatre of Revolt, by Robert Brustein

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THERE WAS ONCE a man who planned to write a history of England from 1066 to the present, to be entitled “The Age of Transition.” At first sight Robert Brustein’s book seems much the…



About the Author

John Gross is the editor most recently of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes. His “Mr. Virginia Woolf” appeared in the December 2006 COMMENTARY.