Bourgeois Masterpieces
Julian Symons
- Literature and Liberation: Selected Essays by Arnold Kettle, edited by Graham Martin and W.R. Owens
Manchester, 231 pp, £9.95, February 1991, ISBN 0 7190 2773 X
My friend and fellow crime writer John Creasey published more than seven hundred books under some twenty different names. (He also found time to found a political party called rather grandly the All Party Alliance, although a wit said that his only allies were Anthony Morton, Gordon Ashe, Michael Halliday and other Creasey pseudonyms.) His books were popular but not highly regarded, and this worried and baffled him. Why, he asked me once, was there thought to be so much difference between Creasey and Shakespeare? Wasn’t Macbeth a crime story? Didn’t he, like Shakespeare, write for the people rather than for intellectuals? The subject-matter was similar, the approach was similar, the difference simply that between prose and verse.
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Vol. 13 No. 11 · 13 June 1991 » Julian Symons » Bourgeois Masterpieces
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