THE PRINCESS ZOUBAROFF A COMEDY With a Frontispiece and Decoration by MICHEL SEVIER
Reading edition
LIVERPOOL POST AND MERCURY:
“In taking to play-writing he has obviously done the right thing. The Princess Zoubaroff is artificial comedy of the uncommonly successful sort.... The brilliancy, suavity and vim of the dialogue.... No present-day social-satirist has parodied more cruelly the elegant verbal affectations, the malicious chatter and fashionable slang that passes for wit and wisdom in Mayfair.”
SPECTATOR:
“Mr Firbank has an extraordinary knack of writing dialogue, and his entirely odious people move and breathe and are completely real. Perhaps some day Mr Firbank will give us a comedy that is not all satire; when he does it might prove an exceedingly brilliant acting play.”
OUTLOOK:
“Possibly someone familiar with the English colony at Florence would regard it as a roman à clef.”
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN:
“He is a portent ... a black sheep among white ones....”
TIMES:
“A continuous sparkle of crisp dialogue.”
DAILY EXPRESS:
“Mr Firbank’s endeavours to be wicked are almost pathetic.... Young men with side-whiskers and maids in Assyrian jumpers are raving about Mr Firbank’s audacities....”