What Is Theatre?: Incorporating The Dramatic Event and Other Reviews, 1944-1967

By Eric Bentley

Introduction by Donald Lyons What Is Theatre?, originally published in 1968, collects all of Eric Bentley's theater criticism. Bentley's most productive years as a reviewer coincided with some of the greatest years of twentieth-century drama. His essays cover the premieres of works by T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Jean Anouilh, and Arthur Miller, among others, as well as subjects as far-ranging as Charlie Chaplin and the Peking Opera--and each contains insights that are still relevant. What Is Theatre? is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding what our American theater has been, is now, and could become.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809096951
• ISBN13: 9780809096954
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.3" x 5.5"