... Wilde. Their outsiders' view of British society allowed them a freedom to observe it critically, which is not found so clearly in any English dramatist of the turn of the century. The plays of Harley Granville-Barker in the early years of the century also had considerable political content. Granville-Barker was well known as a theatre director, and his highly practical Prefaces to twelve of Shakespeare ... . Life is rarely simple in Forster's novels. In A Passage to India, Forster can admire the detachment of the Hindu mind, at the same time criticising the inflexibility of the British ap...

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