ABSTRACT

James Agate (1877-1947), the enfant terrible of drama criticism in the 1920s and 1930s, was drama editor for the ‘Saturday Review’ (1921-3), BBC drama critic (1925-32) and for many years, subsequently, drama critic for the ‘Sunday Times’. From 1935 he wrote his monumental autobiography, ‘Ego’. See also Nos. 119, 155, 198.