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[null,"1.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910955271703321"]
[null,null,"Autore",null,"Bentley Eric <1916-2020.>"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The playwright as thinker / / Eric Bentley ; introduction by Richard Gilman"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-8166-7491-4"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[4th ed., 1st University of Minnesota Press ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (416 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"809.2"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Drama - 19th century - History and criticism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Drama - 20th century - History and criticism"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"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."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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"]