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Author Bentley, Eric, 1916-2020.

Title In search of theater / Eric Bentley.

Imprint New York : Atheneum, 1975.

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 Axe Special Collections Eucalyptus  792.0904 B446i 1975    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition College ed.
Description xxii, 411, viii pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note "Atheneum 212"--Cover.
Includes index.
Contents The Broadway intelligentsia -- Boredom in New York -- Gentility in London -- God's plenty in Paris -- Germany: splendeurs et misères -- A first glimpse of Italy -- Better than Europe? -- South of Eboli -- Schloss Leopoldskron -- Doing Shakespeare wrong -- Strindberg, the one and the many -- The stagecraft of Brecht -- Monsieur Verdoux and theater -- Martha Graham's journey -- The purism of Etienne Decroux -- Two evenings chez Barrault -- The poet in Dublin -- Trying to like O'Neill -- Bernard Shaw dead -- Copeau and the chimera -- The china in the bull shop -- Son of Pulcinella -- Pirandello's joy and torment -- Yeats's plays -- Heroic wantonness -- Craftsmanship in Uncle Vanya -- Ibsen, pro and con -- More than a play? -- An actor as thinker -- 1900-1950.
Subject Theater -- History -- 20th century.
Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Drama. (OCoLC)fst00897468
Theater. (OCoLC)fst01149217
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0689705220
9780689705229

 
    
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