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Thinking about the Playwright: Comments from Four Decades
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Thinking about the Playwright: Comments from Four Decades Paperback - 1987 - 1st Edition

by Eric Bentley

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From the publisher

Essays discuss Ibsen, Strindberg, O'Neill, Brecht, Shaw, acting styles, theater controversies, translation, regional drama, and the nature of theater.

From the rear cover

A book in seven parts: About leading dramatists: About the art of acting modern theories thereof: the pros and cons of political theater, John Wayne, Bertolt Brecht; when political theater goes wrong or simply fails to measure up; Tributes to three great theater people; Problems, problems; How should the great Spanish playwrights Lope, Calderon be interpreted? What is theater anyway? Thoughts at different seasons wand with different emphases. What should the twenty-year-old playwright do? Is theater a form of group therapy? Does theater have a future? What is the essence of its past and present?

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  • Title Thinking about the Playwright: Comments from Four Decades
  • Author Eric Bentley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 364
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Northwestern University Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1987-05
  • ISBN 9780810107335 / 0810107333
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.1 x 0.99 in (22.96 x 15.49 x 2.51 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Theater, Drama
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 86031204
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792

About the author

ERIC BENTLEY was born in England in 1916 and became an American citizen in 1948. He has earned a reputation as a scholar, teacher, professional theatre critic, performer, and a playwright.
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