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Thinking about the playwright : comments from four decades / by Eric Bentley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bentley, Eric, 1916-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama.
- Theater.
- Dramatists--Biography.
- Dramatists.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- x, 364 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- A book in seven parts: About leading dramatists: About the art of acting modern theories thereof: the pros and cons of political theater, John Wayne, Bertolt Brecht; when political theater goes wrong or simply fails to measure up; Tributes to three great theater people; Problems, problems; How should the great Spanish playwrights Lope, Calderon be interpreted? What is theater anyway? Thoughts at different seasons wand with different emphases. What should the twenty-year-old playwright do? Is theater a form of group therapy? Does theater have a future? What is the essence of its past and present?
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0810107325 :
- 0810107333
- OCLC:
- 15016151
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