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The Playwright as Thinker

The Playwright as Thinker

Bentley, Eric

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0816672954
ISBN13: 9780816672950
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pr
Published: Sep 14 2010
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
First published in 1946, The Playwright as Thinker is a classic work of drama criticism that helped create the intellectual environment in which serious American theater would thrive in the second half of the twentieth century. At the time of publishing, most drama critics believed dramatic art deserved no intellectual status; Eric Bentley set out to prove them wrong. Focusing on the canonic playwrights Strindberg, Ibsen, Pirandello, Sartre, and Brecht, Bentley viewed the playwright as thinker, and his survey of over 150 years of dramatic art provided, in essence, an intellectual history of Europe. This edition not only contains the original, long-suppressed foreword, in which Bentley lambastes the climate of Broadway at the time, but also the author's 1987 afterword.

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