Elizabeth Bowen in the "New Statesman" agreed: "Mr Lucas has attempted to rush the barrier that divides the discursive from the melodramatic play", to combine "ideas not his own but dramatically plausible, and ideas his own but not dramatic".
Elizabeth Bowen in the "New Statesman" agreed: "Mr Lucas has attempted to rush the barrier that divides the discursive from the melodramatic play". The playwright thus appears torn between "ideas not his own but dramatically plausible, and ideas his own but not dramatic".