LEADER 02673nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910785689003321 005 20220330005801.0 010 $a0-8166-7491-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000069679 035 $a(EBL)635538 035 $a(OCoLC)698111708 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000472136 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11338078 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472136 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10433496 035 $a(PQKB)10546085 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29845 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL635538 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10440589 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL525975 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC635538 035 $a(PPN)225411105 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000069679 100 $a20100519d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe playwright as thinker$b[electronic resource] /$fEric Bentley ; introduction by Richard Gilman 205 $a4th ed., 1st University of Minnesota Press ed. 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-7295-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $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. 330 $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 606 $aDrama$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDrama$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aDrama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDrama$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.2 700 $aBentley$b Eric$f1916-2020.$0191977 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785689003321 996 $aThe playwright as thinker$93761033 997 $aUNINA