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Eric Bentley is the Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University.
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Obras por Eric Bentley

Shaw on Music (1955) — Editor — 124 exemplares
The Modern Theatre, Volume 1 (1950) 107 exemplares
The Life of the Drama (1964) 94 exemplares
The Classic Theatre Volume I: Six Italian Plays (1958) — Editor — 89 exemplares
The Classic Theatre Volume III (1959) 82 exemplares
The Modern Theatre, Volume 6 (1960) 80 exemplares
The Modern Theatre, Volume 2 (1955) 77 exemplares
The Modern Theatre, Volume 3 (1955) 72 exemplares
The classic theatre (1958) 64 exemplares
In Search of Theater (1923) 58 exemplares
Bernard Shaw (1947) 54 exemplares
The Modern Theatre, Volume 5 (1957) 42 exemplares
The Brecht commentaries 1943-1986 (1981) 36 exemplares
The Modern Theatre, Volume 4 (1956) — Editor — 35 exemplares
The Brecht Memoir (1986) 29 exemplares
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been (1972) 25 exemplares
The genius of the Italian theater (1964) 25 exemplares
Lord Alfred's Lover (1981) 24 exemplares
Gay Plays: Four (1990) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Rallying Cries (1977) 19 exemplares
The Play: A Critical Anthology (1951) 12 exemplares
Bentley on Brecht (2000) 10 exemplares
The storm over The deputy (1964) 10 exemplares
The Dramatic Event (1954) 9 exemplares
DRAMATIC EVENT (1957) 3 exemplares
From the modern repertoire, (1965) 2 exemplares
Round Two (2008) 2 exemplares
O Teatro Engajado 1 exemplar
Plays by Webster & Tourneur (2018) 1 exemplar
Wedekind Cabaret, The (2008) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Pygmalion (1913)algumas edições6,693 exemplares
Life of Galileo (1940) — Editor, algumas edições2,564 exemplares
Mother Courage and Her Children (1939) — Tradutor, algumas edições2,366 exemplares
The Threepenny Opera (1976) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,636 exemplares
The Good Woman of Setzuan (1938) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,206 exemplares
The Caucasian chalk circle (1944) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,114 exemplares
Arms and the Man (1894) — Contribuidor, algumas edições1,089 exemplares
Naked Masks: Five Plays (1952) — Editor — 630 exemplares
Plays by George Bernard Shaw (1960) — Editor — 495 exemplares
Woyzeck (1879) — Tradutor, algumas edições455 exemplares
Six Plays of Strindberg (1955) — Introdução — 355 exemplares
The Good Woman of Setzuan / The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948) — Tradutor, algumas edições352 exemplares
Baal / A Man's a Man / The Elephant Calf (1918) — Editor, algumas edições164 exemplares
Manual of Piety (1927) — Tradutor, algumas edições139 exemplares
Anton Chekhov's Plays [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1977) — Contribuidor — 137 exemplares
The Brute and Other Farces (1958) — Editor; Editor — 48 exemplares
O'Neill: A Collection of Critical Essays (1964) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays (1969) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
New American Review #4 (1968) 14 exemplares
New American Review 8 (1970) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The Brecht-Eisler Song Book (1992) — Editor — 11 exemplares
Chekhov: New Perspectives (1984) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Brute, The (1984) — Tradutor, algumas edições4 exemplares
Barry Humphries' Weimar Cabaret [programme] — Tradutor — 1 exemplar
Mother Courage and her children (1969) — Adaptor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Bentley, Eric Russell
Data de nascimento
1916-09-14
Data de falecimento
2020-08-05
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK (birth)
USA (naturalized 1948)
Local de nascimento
Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Local de falecimento
Manhattan, New York, USA
Causa da morte
natural causes
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA
Educação
Yale University (B.Litt | 1939 | PhD | 1941 - Comparative Literature)
University of Oxford (BA|1938|University College)
Bolton School
Ocupações
theatre critic
playwright
translator
editor
professor
singer
Relações
Brecht, Bertolt (colleague)
Organizações
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Columbia University
The New Republic
Black Mountain College
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Minnesota (mostrar todos 8)
State University of New York, Buffalo
University of Maryland
Prémios e menções honrosas
Publishing Triangle (Robert Chesley Award for Lesbian and Gay Playwriting ∙ 2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1953)
American Theatre Hall of Fame (1998)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969)
New York Theater Hall of Fame
Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement (2006) (mostrar todos 7)
Robert Chesley Award (2007)

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Eric Bentley is best known as a theater critic and for his many years of close collaboration with Bertolt Brecht, whom he met as a young man and whose work he translated into English. He has also edited publications of Brecht's work and made two albums of Brecht songs, some of which appeared in English for the first time.

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Hhmm.. Welp, my copy is a hardback from 1972 - but this edition is close enuf. This has writings by Antonin Artaud, Bertold Brecht, & E. Gordon Craig - amongst many others - but these 3 are probably enuf to get across the idea of why I'm giving it a high rating. Craig, if I remember correctly, proposed a theater of all sets, lighting & motion - W/O actors. Now, I skimming thru his section of this bk & I see no reference to that & I don't know if Craig actually ever realized those ideas or even if I'm confused about the whole business. Nonetheless, it's largely b/c of my association of Craig w/ such things that I give this bk the rating I do. At any rate, this is probably the largest concentration of theater theory that I've ever read & it's important to me for that alone. I've gone thru the "plays" section of my library - picking out the ones I've read to list here on GoodReads. It's interesting to see the collection of plays that I have & to then see how few of them I've read. It reminds me that I don't like reading plays much. &, as w/ all my attempts to scratch the surface of what I've read, it makes me want to read MORE, MORE!… (mais)
 
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tENTATIVELY | 1 outra crítica | Apr 3, 2022 |
Around four stars if you are not interested in opera. I'm not, yet consistently entertaining writing and trenchant criticism add a star, for anyone who enjoys those. Except:
Around three stars if you are not interested in classical music. Except:
Around two stars if you are interested in no music. Go away.
The first fifth is criticism of music criticism.
 
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KENNERLYDAN | 1 outra crítica | Jul 11, 2021 |
Vol. 3 includes: Fernando de Rojas, Celestina; Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna; Tirso de Molina, The Trickster of Seville; Calderón de la Barca, Life is a dream and Love after death; Miguel de Cervantes, The Siege of Numantia.
 
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deckla | 1 outra crítica | Aug 20, 2018 |
Vol. 1 includes: Machiavelli, The Mandrake; Beoleo, Ruzzante returns from the wars; Anonymous, The Three Cuckolds; Goldoni, The Servant of two masters; Goldoni, Mirandolina; Gozzi, The King Stag.
 
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deckla | Aug 20, 2018 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
77
Also by
25
Membros
2,188
Popularidade
#11,722
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
16
ISBN
119
Línguas
3
Marcado como favorito
1

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