Eric Bentley

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1) What is theatre?: Incorporating The dramatic event, and other reviews, 1944-1967

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"What Is Theatre? collects all of Bentley's reviews - which cover the premieres of masterpieces by T.S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Jean Anouilh, Arthur Miller, and many other classic writers - as well as essays on subjects ranging from Charlie Chaplin to the Peking Opera. Bentley writes with wit and panache, and his book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding what our American theatre has been, is now, and could become."--Jacket....

2) The playwright as thinker: a study of drama in modern times

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Eric Bentley

1) What is theatre?: Incorporating The dramatic event, and other reviews, 1944-1967

2) The playwright as thinker: a study of drama in modern times

3) Bentley on Brecht

4) The modern theatre

5) The great playwrights: twenty-five plays with commentaries by critics and scholars

6) Rallying cries: three plays

7) In search of theater

8) The Kleist variations: three plays

9) A time to die, and A time to live: two short plays

10) Are you now or have you ever been, and other plays

11) The life of the drama

12) The dramatic event: an American chronicle

13) Monstrous martyrdoms: 3 plays

14) From the modern repertoire

15) The theory of the modern theatre: an introduction to modern theatre and drama

16) Theatre of war: comments on 32 occasions

17) The play, a critical anthology

18) The Brecht commentaries, 1943-1980

19) The Brecht memoir

20) A century of hero-worship: a study of the idea of heroism in Carlyle and Nietzsche, with notes on Wagner, Spengler, Stefan George, and D.H. Lawrence