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What is The Playwright as Thinker: a Study of Drama in Modern Times about?
The two traditions of modern drama -- Tragedy in modern dress -- Tragedy in fancy dress -- Wagner and Ibsen: a contrast -- Bernard Shaw -- Varieties of comic experience -- August Strindberg -- From Strindberg to Jean-Paul Sartre -- From Strindberg to Bertolt Brecht.
- Author
- Eric Bentley, James Bentley
- Publisher
- New York, Harcourt, Brace & World
- Published
- 1967
- Language
- EN
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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