The playwright as thinker /
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 dese...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2010.
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Edición: | 4th ed., 1st University of Minnesota Press ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 392 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780816674916 0816674914 |