What is Theatre? Incorporating the Dramatic Event and Other Reviews 1944-1967

Bentley, Eric ; Eric Bentley (Author); Donald Lyons (Introduction by)

ISBN 10: 0809096951 / ISBN 13: 9780809096954

Published by Hill and Wang/ A Division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2000

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491 pp. Flawless, fresh, sharp, tight copy with crisp pages and clean text. Light stain on front cover. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom edge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What is Theatre? Incorporating the Dramatic Event and Other Reviews 1944-1967
• Publisher: Hill and Wang/ A Division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809096951
• ISBN 13: 9780809096954
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Harry Ford (Design)
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Studies, Literary Theory & Lit. Criticsm
  • Theatre, American Theatre & Drama
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

About this title

Synopsis

Introduction by Donald Lyons

What Is Theatre?, originally published in 1968, collects all of Eric Bentley's theater criticism. Bentley's most productive years as a reviewer coincided with some of the greatest years of twentieth-century drama. His essays cover the premieres of works by T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Jean Anouilh, and Arthur Miller, among others, as well as subjects as far-ranging as Charlie Chaplin and the Peking Opera--and each contains insights that are still relevant. What Is Theatre? is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding what our American theater has been, is now, and could become.

About the Author

Eric Bentley is considered the world's greatest authority on Brecht. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Bentley on Brecht. He lives in New York.