Volume 3, Number 8 · December 3, 1964

The Man in the Closet

By Frank Kermode
The Life of Drama
by Eric Bentley

Atheneum, 371 pp., $5.95

With one lover already under the bed, one hears the husband's knock at the door, and the second lover is crammed into the closet. Subsequently, and with the ease and speed of dreaming, the first glides to the bathroom, the second to the fire escape. Of course it's nice to be so much better informed than the husband; but why these volleys of silvery laughter from the stalls?



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