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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bentley, Eric, 1916-2020
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Edition:4th ed., 1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The two traditions of modern drama
  • Tragedy in modern dress
  • Tragedy in fancy dress
  • Wagner and Ibsen : a contrast
  • Bernard Shaw
  • Varieties of comic experience
  • August Strindberg
  • From Strindberg to Jean-Paul Sartre
  • From Strindberg to Bertolt Brecht
  • Broadway, and the alternative.