In search of theater
by Eric Bentley
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This book was written between 1946 and 1952, and first published in 1953. It is now widely regarded as the standard portrait of the European and American theater in the turbulent and seminal years following World War II; but it is far more than that. It ranges back as far as Ibsen and even Shakespeare, and has contributed very substantially to a number of reputations that would long outlast 1950, such as those of Bertolt Brecht, Charles Chaplin and Martha Graham. For Bentley fans, it is an show more essential link in a chain that runs from The Playwright as Thinker to The Life of the Drama to The Brecht Memoir and Thinking About the Playwright. show lessTags
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Eric Bentley is the Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University.
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Vintage Books (V-6)
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Music, General Nonfiction, Travel
- DDC/MDS
- 792.09 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Stage presentations modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography; Description, critical appraisal of specific theatres and companies
- LCC
- PN2189 .B4 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater By period Modern
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- English
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