“I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair."” WorldShouldHumansFactsUseLife IsCan DoHuman BeingsInfluenceTaughtEqualDespairWesternDoctrineLuxuryDestructiveFedsMortalityOverwhelmingLeisureContemplatingPrivilegedIndulgePlaywrightPointlessIndulge InAffluence Author:Kenneth Tynan
“William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.” EnglandIrelandSophisticatedRivalsPlaywrightWilde Book:Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings Source: Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings
“It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.” YearsDutyTheaterSacredIrelandPlaywrightInarticulate Book:Tynan on theatre Source: Tynan on theatre
