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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
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:
Life of the Drama (1964)
The Brecht-Eisler Song Book
The Playwright as Thinker (1946)
Bentley on Brecht (1998)
In search of theater (1953)
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