Description
About the Author
Critic, scholar, translator, and playwright, Eric Bentley has been Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University and Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. He served as drama critic of the New Republic and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1997-98. His most widely read books are Thinking about the Playwright, Bentley on Brecht, and The Kleist Variations. Richard Gilman (1923-2006) was one of the leading drama and literary critics of the second half of the twentieth century. He was a professor at the Yale School of Drama for thirty-one years and the author of five books of criticism and a memoir.
Reviews
"The Playwright as Thinker has proved itself to be a permanent critical work. I can think of no rival to the way Eric Bentley argues that the greatest dramatists are also original and challenging thinkers. Few works of interpretation hold on forever. This is one of them." -Harold Bloom, Yale University
"I was educated by Playwright." -Richard Gilman
Book Information
ISBN 9780816672950
Author Eric Bentley
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 140mm * 25mm