Critics on Criticism

By George Jean Nathan The leading American drama critic of his time, George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) zealously wrote criticism from 1905 to 1958, published more than 40 books on the theatre, co-edited The Smart Set and The American Mercury with

Steve Capra[1] The Critic as Publicist To examine the relationship between criticism and its national theatre is to ask how, and indeed if, one influences the other. That the theatre influences criticism is self-evident; it is the stimulus to which