TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bentley,Eric
AU  - Gilman,Richard
TI  - The playwright as thinker
SN  - 9780816672950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 809.2 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Minneapolis, London
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Drama
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - 20th century
KW  - HHUUEENN
KW  - November2019
KW  - Reading book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The two traditions of modern drama -- Tragedy in modern dress -- Tragedy in fancy dress -- Wagner and Ibsen : a contrast -- Bernard Shaw -- Varieties of comic experience -- August Strindberg -- From Strindberg to Jean-Paul Sartre -- From Strindberg to Bertolt Brecht -- Broadway, and the alternative
N2  - 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 Eu
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