...Gordon Rogoff Last November a group of friends and colleagues gathered to honor Eric Bentley at Columbia University. The occasion was prompted by Bentley's 70th birthday and the publication of a book of essays written in his honor. The book, The Play and Its Critic, was edited by Michael Bertin...

...Joel Schechter Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 TRANSLATIONS, ADAPTATIONS, VARIATIONS: A CONVERSATION WITH ERIC BENTLEY...

... Copyright 1969 by yale/theatre 1969 An interview with Eric Bentley The following interview took place on 27 November 1968. The interviewer, Michael Feingold, is one of the editors of yale/theatre and writes monthly criticism for the British theatre...

...Andreas Huyssen Copyright © THEATER 1985 1985 Bentley’s Kleist Variation: The Fa22 of the Amazons at Theatre X...

...Eric Bentley Copyright © THEATER 1982 1982 Stark Young Eric Bentley The aesthetic princ@&sare at bottom such axioms as that a note soundr good with its third andj?h, or that potatoes lucd salt. AU intellectual work is the same - the artistjetis the public...

...Eric Bentley Copyright © THEATER 1983 1983 Bertolt Brecht and Eric Bentley in Zurich, 1948. THE E...

...Eric Bentley Copyright © THEATER 1985 1985 Was This Death Accidental? Eric Bentley Dear Sirs: Mr. Cohen produced it. I saw that production. If there is a good play...

...Eric Bentley; Roswitha Mueller Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 Photo Credits Correspondence Bert Andrews 34...

...Eric Bentley Copyright © THEATER 1985 1985 IPhoto Credits 1 Corremondence American Place Theater 57...

...Eric Bentley Copyright © by yale/theatre 1976 1976 Gogol's Gaiety by Eric Bentley Notes on The Marriage, A Madman's Diary, and Gamblers These notes will appear later this year as part of Eric Bentley's edition of the three Gogol works in Croft's Classics...

...Eric Bentley Copyright © THEATER 1990 1990 hell of it found this sword and cut into his hump. Now I was taught to believe, LETTER by my mother, that people who have hunchbacks have wings on their backs, and as a child, watching all this, I said to myself: “Well that’s all right...

...Eric Bentley Paul Robeson by Martin Bauml Duberman. 804 pp. The Bodley Head, UK £, 20 Knopf US $24.95. Copyright © THEATER 1990 1990 THE AMERICAN OTHELLO ERIC...

...Eric Bentley; Julius Novick; Robert Marx Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 23 Eric Bentley and Julius Novick Edited by Robert Marx How does a drama critic function in the poetic writing is serious and meets America's contemporary theatre? Is he a fairly high...

...Eric Bentley Quality in Theatre by Eric Bentley It would be nice if one could clearly and surely distinguish between quality in theatre and quality in the other arts. Certainly, most of us have our preferences as between one art and another. When D. H. Lawrence...

...Eric Bentley Copyright © THEATER 1980 1980 The Back of the Book .~ ~ E o <l:: <IJ C <IJ enU 101 News comes to us from Buffalo, New Well, it would be rather dreadful...

...Eric Bentley Copyright © THEATER 1981 1981 The Back of the Book Correspond- ence with Brecht Eric Bentley KURT WEILLHAD TO GET AWAY...

... the translator has followed the original tor’s task somehow involves a rigorous “mere mortals faced with a godlike writer’s blueprint - in conveying the adherence to something unspecified task,” Bentley constructs a frame sense or spirit of the translated work. and perhaps unspecifiable...

..., Acrobats ofthe Soul, was recently published by Theatre Com- Ontario and on and on. But in the U.S. it was his link with Eric Bentley’s work that was known. He began playing Oscar in municationsGroup, and it includesthe essay on Penn...

...Karen E. Lordi Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 KAREN E. LORD1 t is the presence of Graham that looms over our Ten years later, in 1952, Eric Bentley wrote an essay stage...

... good criticism. Miller and Williams were writing plays like Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire, and Eric Bentley tagged the playwright a “thinker.” The Silver Age embraced mainstream critics like Walter Kerr, who came from Chicago...