02702nam 2200589Ia 450 991046023720332120200520144314.00-8166-7491-4(CKB)2670000000069679(EBL)635538(OCoLC)698111708(SSID)ssj0000472136(PQKBManifestationID)11338078(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472136(PQKBWorkID)10433496(PQKB)10546085(MiAaPQ)EBC635538(MdBmJHUP)muse29845(PPN)225411105(Au-PeEL)EBL635538(CaPaEBR)ebr10440589(CaONFJC)MIL525975(EXLCZ)99267000000006967920100519d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe playwright as thinker[electronic resource] /Eric Bentley ; introduction by Richard Gilman4th ed., 1st University of Minnesota Press ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press20101 online resource (416 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-7295-4 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 EuDrama19th centuryHistory and criticismDrama20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.DramaHistory and criticism.DramaHistory and criticism.809.2Bentley Eric1916-191977MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460237203321The playwright as thinker2491443UNINA