TY - BOOK AU - Bentley,Eric TI - The playwright as thinker: a study of drama in modern times T2 - Meridian books AV - PN1851 .B468 1957 PY - 1957/// CY - New York PB - Meridian Books KW - Drama KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - European drama N1 - 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 N2 - "A sharp witty study of the contemporary theater and its playwrights by one if its severest critics."--P. [4] of cover ER -