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Eric Bentley

Born

in Bolton, Lancashire, England, The United Kingdom

September 14, 1916

Died

August 05, 2020

Genre

Theatre, Translator

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Eric Russell Bentley was a British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor, and translator whose work shaped twentieth-century theatrical discourse. Educated at University College, Oxford, and Yale University, where he earned his doctorate, he later taught at Black Mountain College and Columbia University and served as theatre critic for The New Republic. Known for his incisive and uncompromising criticism, he became one of the foremost English-language authorities on Bertolt Brecht, translating, editing, and performing Brecht’s work and recording landmark albums of Brecht songs. Bentley was also an accomplished playwright, with Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been, drawn from Un-American Activities Committee hearings, becomi ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 29,861 ratings · 1,167 reviews · 183 distinct works

	The Life of the Drama 4.09 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1963 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities 1938-1968 (Nation Books) by Eric Bentley (Compiler), Frank Rich (Compiler) 4.42 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1971 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama 3.70 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1968 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, and Other Plays really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1972 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Playwright As Thinker: A Study of Drama in Modern Times 4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1955 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Servant of Two Masters: And Other Italian Classics (Applause Books) 3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bernard Shaw (Applause Books) 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1947 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Classic Theatre Vol. III: Six Spanish Plays 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1958 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of Theater: Travels in England, Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and the United States (Applause Books) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1953 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Misanthrope and Other French Classics (Applause Books) 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Classic Theatre (4 books)
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“Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or example. It makes you more aware. Which is to say that it makes you more human by making life more, not less, difficult. When you become more aware, the area of moral choice is widened. You can be a better man; you can also be a worse. Literature will not determine which. It is the equivalent of neither grace nor good works.”
― Eric Bentley

tags: humanity, literature

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“Poverty makes you sad as well as wise”
― Eric Bentley, The Threepenny Opera

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“What then is the difference between film and theatre? Or should one not rather ask: what are the differences? Let us be content wi th the reply that the screen has two dimensions and the stage three, that the screen presents photographs and the stage living actors. All the subtler differences stem from these. The camera can show us all sorts of things--from close-ups of insects to panoramas of prairies--which the stage cannot even suggest, and it can move from one to another with much more dexterity than any conceivable stage. The stage, on the other hand, can be revealed in the unsurpassable beauty of three-dimensional shapes, and the stage actor establishes between himself and his audience a contact real as electricity.”
― Eric Bentley

tags: cinema-threater

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