Recipient of 2007 The Robert Chesley Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in Playwriting Winner of 2006 International Association of Theatre Critics Thalia Prize Winner of 2006 Village Voice OBIE Awards Lifetime Achievement Award
Since their first meeting in Santa Monica, California in 1942, Eric Bentley has been Bertolt Brecht's other, offstage voice. Just as Brecht reshaped modern theater, Bentley's writings on Brecht helped shape his reputation in the United States and the rest of the world. Bentley on Brecht represents a lifetime of critical and personal thoughts on both Brecht as friend and Brecht as influential literary figure. Brought together in this volume are Brecht-Bentley correspondence, Bentley's personal recollections of his years with Brecht, including Charles Laughton's production of Galileo, Brecht's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Bentley's analysis of Brecht's plays.
Acknowledgments and Dedications
1998 Preface
The Brecht Commentaries 1998 Brecht's Reputation
1943 The Trial of Lucullus
1944 The Private Life of the Master Race
1946 From Strindberg to Brecht
1950 The Stageecraft of Bertolt Brecht
1960 Seven Plays In the Swamp A Man's Man Saint Joan of the Stockyards Galileo The Good Woman of Setzuan Mother Courage The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1962 A Man's a Man What is a Zonk
1963 Baal
1964 A New Aestheticism
1965 Why Has Broadway Rejected Bertolt Brecht Edward II Mother Courage
1966 The Caucasian Chalk Circle (I) The Caucasian Chalk Circle (II) Galileo (I)
The Brecht Memoir Bentley-Brecht Correspondence Notes Postscript
Appendix 1: Answers to a Questionnaire Appendix 2: A Bibliography of Other Works on brecht by Bentley Appendix 3: Another Bibliography: Bentley Translations of Brecht Index to Brecht Works and Characters Index
Gallery follows page 136.
ERIC BENTLEY was born in England in 1916 and became an American citizen in 1948. He has earned a reputation as a scholar, teacher, professional theatre critic, performer, and a playwright.
"An immensely valuable account of the interaction of two great personalities at a climactic period of history." —Martin Esslin
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