216pp. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Paper dust jacket mylar wrapped, spine sun faded, price unclipped. 8vo. Gascoigne puts forward the interesting idea that the drama of the twentieth century began with Pirandello, rather than Ibsen and Shaw who were the culmination of the nineteenth century movement, and gives a slant on the century which illuminating, firm, clear and closely analysed.
