'Edmund Barclay's contribution to drama week, is also a work requiring bigness of outlook. It rests securely on the beautiful and richness of the imagery in its lines, rather than on plot, or on subtlety of characterisation. It is episodic in character, treating of the days of the Mermaid Tavern, and Will Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe and Ben Jonson, and many others of that Elizabethan ilk...' ('4QG Has a Busy Night,' p.28).