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Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and, instead of genuine ideas, Bright Ideas.

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A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

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Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

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If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the world is provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.

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Eric Bentley

Eric Bentley

Born: September 14, 1916
Died: August 5, 2020 (aged 103)
Bio: Eric Russell Bentley was a British-born American critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator.
Known for:
  1. Life of the Drama (1964)
  2. The Brecht-Eisler Song Book
  3. The Playwright as Thinker (1946)
  4. Bentley on Brecht (1998)
  5. In search of theater (1953)

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