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A definitive work by one of the greatest drama critics.

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"The Playwright as Thinker has proved itself to be a permanent critical work. I can think of no rival to the way Eric Bentley argues that the greatest dramatists are also original and challenging thinkers. Few works of interpretation hold on forever. This is one of them." —Harold Bloom, Yale University
"I was educated by Playwright." —Richard Gilman

Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Richard Gilman
Foreword
1. The Two Traditions of Modern Drama
2. Tragedy in Modern Dress
3. Tragedy in Fancy Dress
4. Wagner and Ibsen: A Contrast
5. Bernard Shaw
6. Varieties of Comic Experience
7. August Strindberg
8. From Strindberg to Jean-Paul Sartre
9. From Strindberg to Bertolt Brecht
10. Broadway-and the Alternative
Notes
Afterword (1987)
Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/09/2010
      ISBN13: 9780816672950, 978-0816672950
      ISBN10: 0816672954

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A definitive work by one of the greatest drama critics.

      Trade Review
      "The Playwright as Thinker has proved itself to be a permanent critical work. I can think of no rival to the way Eric Bentley argues that the greatest dramatists are also original and challenging thinkers. Few works of interpretation hold on forever. This is one of them." —Harold Bloom, Yale University
      "I was educated by Playwright." —Richard Gilman

      Table of Contents
      Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction by Richard Gilman
      Foreword
      1. The Two Traditions of Modern Drama
      2. Tragedy in Modern Dress
      3. Tragedy in Fancy Dress
      4. Wagner and Ibsen: A Contrast
      5. Bernard Shaw
      6. Varieties of Comic Experience
      7. August Strindberg
      8. From Strindberg to Jean-Paul Sartre
      9. From Strindberg to Bertolt Brecht
      10. Broadway-and the Alternative
      Notes
      Afterword (1987)
      Index

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