Image from Google Jackets

The playwright as thinker / Eric Bentley ; introduction by Richard Gilman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2010Edition: Forth edition; First University of Minnesota Press editionDescription: xxiii, 392 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780816672950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0816672954 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 809.2 BEN 22
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book - Borrowing Book - Borrowing Central Library Second Floor Baccah 809.2 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000048190
Total holds: 0

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.

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© BUE Library 2020