BENTLEY, ERIC

1916–, American critic, editor, and translator, b. Bolton, England, grad. Oxford, 1938, Ph.D. Yale, 1941. A highly regarded and rigorously intellectual critic, particularly of the drama, Bentley is the author of such works as A Century of Hero-Worship (1944), The Playwright as Thinker (1946), Bernard Shaw (1947), What Is Theatre? (1956), The Life of the Drama (1964), The Importance of Scrutiny (1964), Theatre of War (1972), Brecht Commentaries (1981), Thinking about the Playwright (1987), and Bentley on Brecht (1998). He is also known for his translations of plays of Bertolt Brecht and Luigi Pirandello and for his editions of collected plays, including The Classic Theatre (4 vol., 1958–61). He was the drama critic for the New Republic from 1952 to 1956 and has taught at several universities.

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Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley
Book by Kathryn S. Olmsted; University of North Carolina Press, 2002
Subjects: Bentley, Elizabeth, Communism--United States--1917-, Espionage--Soviet Union, Informers--United States--Biography, Intelligence Service--Soviet Union, Women Communists--United States--Biography
...QUEEN A Biography of ELIZABETH BENTLEY Kathryn S. Olmsted The University...Red spy queen : a biography of Elizabeth Bentley / by Kathryn S. Olmsted. p. cm. Includes...0-8078-2739-8 cloth : alk. paper 1. Bentley, Elizabeth. 2. Women communists United...
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Life, Language, Law: Essays in Honor of Arthur F. Bentley
Book by Richard W. Taylor; Antioch Press, 1957
Subjects: Bentley, Arthur Fisher--1870-1957, Social Sciences
...Civilization New York: Minton, Balch, 1931 . 20. Bentley, Relativity in Man and Society New York: G. P. Putnam...Talcott Parsons London: G. Allen Unwin, 1930 ; 27. also Eric Voeglin, The New Science of Politics Chicago: University...
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Right You Are: Cosai Ae (Se Vi Pare)
Book by Luigi Pirandello, Eric Bentley; Columbia University Press, 1954
Subjects: Drama
...Westport production, 1952 directed by Eric Bentley Right You Are COSi E SE VI...an Introduction and Notes by ERIC BENTLEY Associate Professor of English...Are TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY ERIC BENTLEY The Sculpture of the Hellenistic...
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The Importance of Scrutiny: Selections from Scrutiny: a Quarterly Review, 1932-1948
Book by Eric Bentley; G.W. Stewart, 1948
Subjects: Criticism, English Literature, Literature
...Review, 1932-1948 EDITED BY ERIC BENTLEY GEORGE W. STEWART, PUBLISHER...Introduction , by Eric Bentley xiii...Scrutiny --might carry some weight. ERIC BENTLEY...
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Let's Get a Divorce! And Other Plays
Includes: A Trip Abroad; Celimare; Let's Get a Divorce!; These Cornfields; Keep an Eye on Amelie!; A United Family
Book by Eric Bentley; Hill and Wang, 1958
Subjects: Farce, Feydeau, Georges--1862-1921, French Farces
...Get a Divorce! AND OTHER PLAYS ERIC BENTLEY Editor Lets Get a Divorce...and Theodore Hoffman Lyrics by Eric Bentley 56...Courteline English version by Eric Bentley 192...
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Faculty Time Allocation
Journal article by Jeffrey F. Milem, Joseph B. Berger, Eric L. Dey; Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 71, 2000
Subjects: College teachers--Workload, Education, Higher--Personnel management, Research institutes--Personnel management, Universities and colleges--Faculty
...Milem , Joseph B. Berger , Eric L. Dey A Study of Change...influences the nature of that change (Bentley Blackburn, 1990; Dey, Milem...University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Eric L. Dey is associate professor...American Council on Education. Bentley, R., Blackburn, R. T. (1990...
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Reconstructing Educational Psychology: Situated Cognition and Deweyian Pragmatism
Journal article by Eric Bredo; Educational Psychologist, Vol. 29, 1994
Subjects: Educational Psychology
...environment that changed both ( Dewey Bentley, 1949). Just as an evolutionary biologist...view was to pragmatism ( Dewey Bentley, 1949). Work relating to this view...context of that inquiry ( Dewey Bentley, 1949). Yet much educational practice...
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Turning Servile Opportunities to Gold: A Strategic Analysis of the Corporate Opportunities Doctrine
Journal article by Eric Talley; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 108, 1998
Subjects: Competition (Economics)--Analysis, Corporate directors--Powers and duties, Corporate officers--Powers and duties, Game theory--Usage
Turning servile opportunities to gold: a strategic analysis of the corporate opportunities doctrine. by Eric Talley I. INTRODUCTION Perhaps no single motif permeates corporate law and governance literature like the problem of agency...
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Environmental Psychology: 1989-1994
Journal article by Eric Sundstrom, Paul A. Bell, Paul L. Busby, Cheryl Asmus; Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 47, 1996
Subjects: Environmental psychology--Research
...more difficult the long-term coping by the victim. Brown Bentley (1993) found that burglars were especially wary of signs that...ed. S Deetz, 15:509-22. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Brown BB, Bentley DL. 1993. Residential burglars judge risk: the role of territoriality...
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Death of a Salesman at Fifty-- Still "Coming Home to Roost"
Journal article by Terry Otten; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Literature--History And Criticism, Philology
...Roost" Terry Otten "Tragedy," Eric Bentley has warned, can "easily lure us...itself ( Theater Essays , 5). Eric Bentley offered the much repeated view...Association of America, 1995 . Bentley, Eric. The Playwright as Thinker: A...
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magazine articles on: Bentley Eric  - 75 results

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Create an Audio CD of Work
Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 21, January 2004
Subjects: Bentley, Eric--Works, Compact disc industry--Product introduction, Compact discs--Product introduction, Compact disk industry--Product introduction, Compact disks--Product introduction, Parks, Suzan-Lori--Works, Random House Audio Publishing Group--Product introduction, Smithsonian Institution--Works, United States. National Endowment for the Arts--Works
...recordings by playwright and critic Eric Bentley with the recent CD release of his...time of the Cuban missile crisis, Bentleys Vietnam-era take was compared with...preferred my version," recalls Bentley. "Something you wont find in the...
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Phyllis Bentley: Novelist of Yorkshire Life
Magazine article by Eric Ford; Contemporary Review, Vol. 270, February 1997
Subjects: Bentley, Phyllis--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Inheritance (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mills and mill-work--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Working class--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Yorkshire, England--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
Phyllis Bentley: novelist of Yorkshire life. by Eric Ford There are some novels...has been the fate of Phyllis Bentleys Inheritance which, published...must have been some element in Bentleys approach to her locality which...
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Bentley on War and Peace
Magazine article by Eric Bentley; American Theatre, Vol. 24, February 2007
Bentley on War and Peace. by Eric Bentley Re: Your coverage of Mother Courage ("Drenched...got far beyond Arms and the Man and Mother Courage. Eric Bentley New York City American Theatre welcomes comments from...
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Bentley on Brecht
Magazine article by Sally Peters; American Theatre, Vol. 16, March 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews
Bentley on Brecht by Sally Peters By Eric Bentley Applause, New York. 454 pp., $18.95 paper, 52 b/w illustrations...1953. Half a century later, his comment still sums up Eric Bentleys crucial role in fashioning critical and popular perceptions...
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6 Shooting Stars in Television & Film
Magazine article by Sherri Mcgee, Eric Smith, Valerie Lynn Gray, Matthew S. Scott; Black Enterprise, Vol. 27, December 1996
Subjects: African American filmmakers--Influence, African Americans in television--Biography, Evans, Bentley Kyle--Biography, Gray, F. Gary--Biography, Greene, Kim--Biography, Hunter, Laura--Biography, Tucker, Camille--Biography, Warren, Jennifer--Biography
...television film by Sherri McGee , Eric Smith , Valerie Lynn Gray , Matthew...both in front of and behind the camera. Bentley Kyle Evans Writer/Producer In Hollywood, Bentley Kyle Evans is running the show. Actually...
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newspaper articles on: Bentley Eric  - 198 results

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Boom! Boom! Boom!; IT'S ERIC HALL; Monster Monster
Newspaper article by Eric Hall; The People (London, England), February 25, 1996
Boom! Boom! Boom!; ITS ERIC HALL; Monster Monster. by Eric Hall WHEN I read that Liam Daish was signing for Coventry...not a VJ," said Vinnie. "Yes I am. Very Jewish." Also a Bentley with the number AMS 1 as I drove past Spurs ground White Hart...
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90 Years of Bentley
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), November 9, 2008
90 Years of Bentley. BENTLEY celebrate 90 years in January and Scots writer Eric Dymock has marked the event in a 320-page glossy book. The Complete Bentley charts Walter Owen Bentleys first motor, the 1931 takeover by Rolls-Royce and the 21st century transformation under VW.
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Rugby Union: Bentley and Miller Will Not Be Ignored
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), June 25, 1997
...Lions 52 Hat Trick hero John Bentley proved as good as his word...performance from Leicester No 8 Eric Miller could see both men recalled...nine wins out of 10 so far. Bentley scored twice in a scintillating...the break, and Bateman let in Bentley for his hat-trick. Another...
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HOME, JAMES; Family Get Bentley Back after 37 Years
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), June 1, 2007
...near Lauder. Losing the car caused a huge gap in the family and we cannot believe we managed to get it back 1950s; 1960s; FAMILY SALOON: Philip Ellis, top left Eric Watt, above, and, main pic, David with the Bentley JONI CAIRNS, BORDERS PRESS AGENCY
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Why Bentley Is Delighted to Be a Rover
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 3, 2006
...Bentley was labelled the new Dennis Bergkamp at Highbury, although he actually modelled himself on United legend Eric Cantona. But Bentley played only once in the Premiership for Arsenal before going on loan to Norwich. There he played 26 times in...
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encyclopedia articles on: Bentley Eric  - 2 results

 
 
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Bentley, Eric
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BENTLEY, ERIC 1916 , American critic, editor, and...intellectual critic, particularly of the drama, Bentley is the author of such works as A Century...Thinking about the Playwright (1987), and Bentley on Brecht (1998). He is also known for...
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Brecht, Bertolt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...where he directed the state-supported Berliner Ensemble. Notable English translations of Brechts plays are those by Eric Bentley, which include Seven Plays by Bertolt Brecht (1961). Bibliography See his collected plays (tr. 1970) and collected...


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