{"product_id":"the-playwright-as-thinker-eric-bentley-9780816672950","title":"The Playwright as Thinker","description":"First published in 1946, \u003ci\u003eThe Playwright as Thinker\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic work of drama criticism that helped create the intellectual environment in which serious American theater would thrive in the second half of the twentieth century. At the time of publishing, most drama critics believed dramatic art deserved no intellectual status; Eric Bentley set out to prove them wrong. Focusing on the canonic playwrights Strindberg, Ibsen, Pirandello, Sartre, and Brecht, Bentley viewed the playwright as thinker, and his survey of over 150 years of dramatic art provided, in essence, an intellectual history of Europe. This edition not only contains the original, long-suppressed foreword, in which Bentley lambastes the climate of Broadway at the time, but also the author's 1987 afterword.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Bentley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816672954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816672950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011 pg. 248","brand":"Eric Bentley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44130139701503,"sku":"9780816672950","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ebbf0a3e-6c61-4557-aac7-829572c63888.jpg?v=1687467781","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-playwright-as-thinker-eric-bentley-9780816672950","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}