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Hankin's comedy-dramas satirize snobbery and class-consciousness. His characters include types familiar to the
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wrote that, "His influence is not to be measured by the fact that the London stage has apparently found no use for him....To have let a little light and air into the
English theater at a time when the windows had for years been shut, and the blinds drawn was no mean accomplishment."
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children who repudiate the values and conventions to which their parents hold. Though Hankin attacked abuses, he suggested no remedies. Consequently, it was said that "his plays, shot through with a cynical pessimism, made even
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