In Search of Theater: Travels in England, Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and the United States

by Eric Bentley

Book Overview

This book was written between 1946 and 1952, and first published in 1953. It is now widely regarded as the standard portrait of the European and American theater in the turbulent and seminal years following World War II; but it is far more than that. It ranges back as far as Ibsen and even Shakespeare, and has contributed very substantially to a number of reputations that would long outlast 1950, such as those of Bertolt Brecht, Charles Chaplin and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557831114
• ISBN13: 9781557831118
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"