02132cam a22003495i 4500 27727 27698 16242329 EG-ScBUE 20191103143009.0 100519s2010 mnu f b 001 0 eng d 9780816672950 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0816672954 (pbk. : alk. paper) DLC eng rda DLC DLC EG-ScBUE 809.2 BEN 22 Bentley, Eric, 1916- author. The playwright as thinker / Eric Bentley ; introduction by Richard Gilman. Forth edition. First University of Minnesota Press edition. Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2010. xxiii, 392 pages ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. Drama 19th century History and criticism. BUEsh Drama 20th century History and criticism. BUEsh 30822 HHUUEENN November2019 Reading book Gilman, Richard, 1923-2006, author of introduction, etc. ddc BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2019-11-03 Purchase 360.00 5 7 809.2 BEN 000048190 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2021-08-15 450.00 2019-11-03 BB