The Playwright as Thinker
Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13:
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Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric Bentley
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A sharp witty study of the contemporary theater and its playwrights by one if its severest critics."--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-03-17
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780364772508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Playwright as Thinker: A Study of Drama in Modern Times Early in 1945 The Nation commissioned me to review the published versions of a number of new plays. But the time was past for such a journal to be interested in non conformity. They refused to print the review I wrote, and it appeared, logically enough, in Partisan Review. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780810107335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays discuss Ibsen, Strindberg, O'Neill, Brecht, Shaw, acting styles, theater controversies, translation, regional drama, and the nature of theater.
Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric Bentley
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 145291561X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jen Silverman
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2021-02-09
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0399591532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast, where she is drawn into the morally ambiguous orbit of a charismatic filmmaker and the teenage girls who are her next subjects. FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A blistering story about the costs of creating art.”—O: The Oprah Magazine Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as “a fierce new voice” and “queer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea.” But at the height of all this attention, Cass finds herself at the center of a searing public shaming, and flees to Los Angeles to escape—and reinvent herself. There she meets her next-door neighbor Caroline, a magnetic filmmaker on the rise, as well as the pack of teenage girls who hang around her house. They are the subjects of Caroline’s next semidocumentary movie, which follows the girls’ clandestine activity: a Fight Club inspired by the violent classic. As Cass is drawn into the film’s orbit, she is awed by Caroline’s ambition and confidence. But over time, she becomes troubled by how deeply Caroline is manipulating the teens in the name of art—especially as the consequences become increasingly disturbing. With her past proving hard to shake and her future one she’s no longer sure she wants, Cass is forced to reckon with her own ambitions and confront what she has come to believe about the steep price of success.
Author: ERIC. BENTLEY
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781033105283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barry Edelstein
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 2018-07-03
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 155936890X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThinking Shakespeare gives theater artists practical advice about how to make Shakespeare’s words feel spontaneous, passionate, and real. Based on Barry Edelstein’s thirty-year career directing Shakespeare’s plays, this book provides the tools that artists need to fully understand and express the power of Shakespeare’s language.
Author: Scott Newstok
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-08-31
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0691227691
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"--