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Thinking about the playwright : comments from four decades / by Eric Bentley.

Van Pelt Library PN1623 .B46 1987
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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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