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| | Books | A god without a cloud |
 | | Alan Strachan is right to point out that when John Gielgud's obituaries were written, and his place in the theatrical pantheon assessed, Michael Redgrave was inexplicably omitted from the list of Britain's greatest 20th-century actors. |
 | | Inevitably, Redgrave, whose last major creation was Jaraby in The Old Boys (directed by Strachan) at the Mermaid in 1971, is remembered by fewer theatre-goers than the other great actors who all had Indian summers well into their 70s. |
 | | Redgrave was plunged into the inevitable Oedipal alienation, in addition to resenting what he felt to be the bourgeois nature of their new life. |
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