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020			_a9780816672950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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100	1		_aBentley, Eric, _d1916- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe playwright as thinker / _cEric Bentley ; introduction by Richard Gilman.
250			_aForth edition.
250			_aFirst University of Minnesota Press edition.
264		1	_aMinneapolis ; _aLondon : _bUniversity of Minnesota Press, _c2010.
300			_axxiii, 392 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_aFirst 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.
650		7	_aDrama _y19th century _xHistory and criticism. _2BUEsh
650		7	_aDrama _y20th century _xHistory and criticism. _2BUEsh _930822
653			_bHHUUEENN _cNovember2019
655			_vReading book
700	1		_aGilman, Richard, _d1923-2006, _eauthor of introduction, etc.
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