• The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

    Robertson Davies: The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.
    Robertson Davies (1961). “The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose”, London : Secker & Warburg