The Critic and the Drama
The Critic and the Drama

Author: George Jean Nathan

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 78

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George Jean Nathan authored this book to share his thoughts about the relationship between a drama critic and the art form that they chose to savor and scrutinize. Nathan is known as an American drama critic in the late 19th and early 20th century, and often credited for bringing success to The Smart Set as its editor and co-founding and editing The American Mercury and The American Spectator.

Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents
Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents

Author: George Jean Nathan

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780838679678

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George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) was formative influence on American letters in the first half of this century, and is generally considered the leading drama critic of his era. With H. L. Mencken, Nathan edited The Smart Set and founded and edited The American Mercury, journals that shaped opinion in the 1920s and 1930s. This series of reprints, individually introduced by the distinguished critic and novelist Charles Angoff, collects Nathan's penetrating, witty, and sometimes cynical drama criticism.

A George Jean Nathan Reader
A George Jean Nathan Reader

Author: George Jean Nathan

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780838633694

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The selection in this one-volume anthology are representative of Nathan's entire oeuvre and include informal essays; criticism of famous plays of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; discussions of dramaturgy and aesthetics; profiles of noted producers, players, playwrights, and other writers; and letters that illuminate his writings.

The World of George Jean Nathan
The World of George Jean Nathan

Author: George Jean Nathan

Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 532

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This anthology represents George Jean Nathan in all the various facets of his long writing career. He has written on marraige, politics, doctors, metropolitan life, the ballet, love, alcohol - on virtually every major aspect of contemporary life - and he has had something shrewd or amusing to say about every one of them.