Eric Bentley
(September 14, 1916 - living) U.S.A.
Critic, editor and translator
Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he graduated at Oxford, 1938, Ph.D. Yale, 1941. A highly regarded and rigorously intellectual critic, particularly of the drama. He is also known for his translations of plays of Bertolt Brecht and Luigi Pirandello and for his editions of collected plays, including The Classic Theatre (4 vol., 1958-61). He was drama critic for the New Republic from 1952 to 1956. From 1953 to 1969 he was Brander Matthews professor of dramatic literature at Columbia, and has taught at several universities.
Source: Books:
- A Century of Hero-Worship (1944)
- The Playwright as Thinker (1946)
- Bernard Shaw (1947)
- What Is Theatre? (1956)
- The Life of the Drama (1964)
- The Importance of Scrutiny (1964)
- Theatre of War (1972)
- Brecht Commentaries (1981)
- Thinking about the Playwright (1987)
- Bentley on Brecht (1998)
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