The Wild Duck on Harrison's History of London: “There’s one great book, called “Harryson’s History of London;” it must be a hundred years old; and there are such an enormous lot of pictures in it.”
How to Be a Heroine on A Doll's House: “Watching Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, being patronised by her husband, forced to pretend to be a featherbrain and an angel, a lark and a squirrel, while all the time she’d saved his life, I thought nothing was as sat”
The Awkward Age on A Doll's House: “Ibsen is in fact wonderfully a case in point, since from the moment he's clear, from the moment he's'amusing,' it's on the footing of a thesis as simple and superficial as that of'A Doll's House'--while from the moment he's by apparent intention comprehensive and searching it's on the footing of an effect as confused and obscure as'The…”
The Awkward Age on The Wild Duck: “Ibsen is in fact wonderfully a case in point, since from the moment he's clear, from the moment he's'amusing,' it's on the footing of a thesis as simple and superficial as that of'A Doll's House'--while from the moment he's by apparent intention comprehensive and searching it's on the footing of an effect as confused and obscure as'The…”
The Awkward Age on Ghosts: “What virtues of the same order would have attached to'The Pillars of Society,' to'An Enemy of the People,' to'Ghosts,' to'Rosmersholm' (or taking also Ibsen's'subtler period') to'John Gabriel Borkmann,' to'The Master-Builder'?”
How to Read and Why on Hedda Gabler: “Henrik Ibsen's tragicomedy, Hedda Gabler; Oscar Wilde's comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest.”
The Awkward Age on Hedda Gabler: “The terms here used, obviously, are matters of appreciation, and there is no short cut to proof (luckily for us all round) either that "Monsieur Alphonse" develops itself on the highest plane of irony or that "Ghosts" simplifies almost to excruciation. If "John Gabriel Borkmann" is but a pennyworth of effect as to a character we can…”
The Awkward Age on An Enemy of the People: “What virtues of the same order would have attached to'The Pillars of Society,' to'An Enemy of the People,' to'Ghosts,' to'Rosmersholm' (or taking also Ibsen's'subtler period') to'John Gabriel Borkmann,' to'The Master-Builder'?”