Eric Bentley
Birth date: September 14, 1916
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bookshelves: classic, one-penny-wonder, play-dramatisation, published-1928 Read in August, 2009 This arrived today 13/3/09 - a 1964 Black Cat and library edition (stamped Tower Hamlets). Translated by Desmond Vesey and the English lyrics are by Eric Bentley, Foreword by Lotte Lenya.Apropos of not...
The Foreword to one edition I read of this play (admiringly) calls Brecht's nature "cold, clinical" and tells us he consciously rejected what he called "Aristelian" drama that seeks its audience to feel empathy for the characters. Instead Brecht embraced alienation. He was also famously a Marxist an...
This is a collection of four Golden Age Spanish drama, ranging from 1585 to 1630 as translated by Roy Campbell, and, to my mind, varying widely in quality. The Siege of Numantia by Miguel de Cervantes of Don Quixote fame is the first play in the book. Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare a...
Humorous, satirical interpretation of the saga of Galileo and the Church.
They say I was born in June. The day, the year somehow ceases to exist. I live with my mother. She stares at the wall, singing songs unnoticing my existence in the house. Is this how being an orphan feels like? I used to work at Madame Pace’s dress shop. Only it wasn't a dress shop. It was a whore h...
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