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First published in 1967 The Theatre of Commitment presents
miscellaneous collection of seven essays written over fifteen
years. Eric Bentley deals with themes like is the drama an extinct
species; the American drama; what is theatre; the pro and con of
political theatre; letter to a would-be playwright and the theatre
of commitment. For most people, theatre of commitment is political
theater, though Bentley indicates that the word commitment is broad
enough to embrace the work of any serious writer even if the
commitment is to non-commitment. This is an interesting read for
students of theatre and performance studies.
Kenichi Shimizu directs this animated feature following the
adventures of characters from the Marvel comics. When the Punisher
(voice of Brian Bloom) makes a mess of a mission he has been
assigned, Black Widow (Jennifer Carpenter) is despatched to
retrieve him and bring him back to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters. There
Director Nick Fury (John Eric Bentley) briefs the duo on an even
more important mission: to prevent the terrorist group Leviathan
from making use of stolen S.H.I.E.L.D. technology. Can the Punisher
redeem himself and help foil the plot?
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The Threepenny Opera (Paperback)
Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley
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Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The
Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am
Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois
capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a
mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's unforgettable music - one of
the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the
theatre - it became a popular hit throughout the western world.
Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition
features extensive notes and commentary including an introduction
to the play, Brecht's own notes on the play, a full appendix of
textual variants, a note by composer Kurt Weill, a transcript of a
discussion about the play between Brecht and a theatre director,
plus editorial notes on the genesis of the play.
In 1952, Hannah Arendt hailed Bertolt Brecht as "beyond a doubt the
greatest living German poet and possibly the greatest living
European playwright." His plays, widely taught and studied, are
searing critiques of civilizations run amok.
During the thirties, the subversive nature of his work sent
Brecht from Germany to Scandinavia and later to the United States.
The Good Woman of Setzuan, written during Brecht's exile and set in
Communist China, is a parable of a young woman torn between
obligation and reality, between love and practicality, and between
her own needs and those of her friends and neighbors.
Adhering closely to the original German text, this is a
performance-friendly translation of one of Brecht's most popular
plays.
The play is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle.
Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the
Caucasus mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of King Solomon
and a child claimed by two mothers. A chalk circle is
metaphorically drawn around a society misdirected in its
priorities. Brecht's statements about class are cloaked in the
innocence of a fable that whispers insistently to the audience.
(Applause Books). The complete play scripts to: The Misanthrope by
Moliere, English version by Richard Wilbur; Phaedra by Racine,
English version by Robert Lowell; The Cid by Corneille, English
version by James Schevill; and Figaro's Marriage by Beaumarchais,
English version by Jacques Barzun.
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Round One (Paperback)
Arthur Schnitzler; Adapted by Eric Bentley
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Full Length, Drama w/music / 18m, 5f, extras /Int./5 Exts. This
German play was written in 1939 and was first produced in Zurich in
1941. In America, it was published in English right away (1941, by
New Directions) but did not reach Broadway till 1963 - in a
memorable production directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Anne
Bancroft. It had, of course, by that time been produced to much
acclaim all over the world. When Bertolt Brecht directed the play
in Munich (1950), Eric Bentley, Assistant Director, at his bidding
started to translate the play into English. He was eventually to
make several different English versions of it. The most interesting
of these is published here. It was a collaboration with the eminent
French composer Darius Milhaud. Together they made this remarkable
contribution to musical theatre.
Eric Bentley's graceful look at George Bernard Shaw was first
published over 50 years ago, and time has only strengthened the
conviction of his ideas and arguments about Shaw. When it arrived
in the late 1940's, this book was hailed by the great poet William
Carlos Williams as "the best treatise on contemporary manners I
think I have ever read. I was fascinated and rewarded in the depths
of my soul." Even Shaw himself described the book as "the best
critical description of my public activities I have yet come
across."
This book was written between 1946 and 1952, and first published in
1953. It is now widely regarded as the standard portrait of the
European and American theater in the turbulent and seminal years
following World War II; but it is far more than that. It ranges
back as far as Ibsen and even Shakespeare, and has contributed very
substantially to a number of reputations that would long outlast
1950, such as those of Bertolt Brecht, Charles Chaplin and Martha
Graham. For Bentley fans, it is an essential link in a chain that
runs from The Playwright as Thinker to The Life of the Drama to The
Brecht Memoir and Thinking About the Playwright.
(Applause Books). Including Antoin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, E.
Gordon Craig, Luigi Pirandello, Konstantin Stanislavsky, W. B.
Yeats, and Emile Zolaing.
This volume contains the best of Shaw's musical writing, including
sections on Gluck, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Verdi,
Berlioz, pieces on opera, musical analysis, oratorios, Gilbert and
Sullivan, plus a long autobiographical preface, one of Shaw's most
self-revealing works. The result is a book of unparalleled
brilliance and grace by a writer who, according to W.H. Auden, "was
probably the greatest music critic who ever lived." "For all music
collections." - Library Journal
All the farces of Russia's greatest dramatist are rendered here in
the classic lively translations which audiences and scholars alike
applaud on the stage and in the classroom. The blustering,
stuttering eloquence of Chekhov's unlikely heroes has endured to
shape the voice of contemporary theatre. This volume presents seven
minor masterpieces: Harmfulness of Tobacco, Swan Song, The Brute,
Marriage Proposal, Summer in the Country, A Wedding, The
Celebration.
"Eric Bentley's radical new look at the grammar of theatre...is a
work of exceptional virtue... The book justifies its title by being
precisely about the ways in which life manifests itself in the
theatre...This is a book to be read again and again." - Frank
Kermode, The New York Review of Books
Includes: Leonce and Lena - George Buchner; Spring's Awakening -
Frank Wedekind; La Ronde - Arthur Schnitzler; The Underpants - Carl
Sternheim.
This wonderful collection of Spanish drama from the golden age
features four plays translated into English by Roy Campbell, and
expertly edited by Eric Bentley: Siege of Numantia (Miguel de
Cervantes), Fuente Ovejuna (Lope de Vega), The Trickster of Seville
(Tirso de Molina) and Life Is a Dream (Calderon de la Barca).
Includes an introduction by Bentley.
An anthology of four classic Italian plays edited by Eric Bentley.
Also includes directorial and technical notes. Includes the title
work by Goldoni as well as EThe King StagE (Gozzi) EThe MandrakeE
(Machiavelli) ERuzzante Returns from the WarsE (Beolco).
First published in 1946, The Playwright as Thinker 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.
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