Theatre of War

By Eric Bentley,

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Theatre is an area that interests me although more as literature than as performance. Bentley's criticism in this book has been one of my role models since my college days because of the unsparing way in which he writes about the most celebrated figures in the field while being deeply sensitive to society, culture, and politics.

I have myself tried to cultivate his kind of approach as a critic of cinema and literature, and perhaps more than the other writers cited, echoes of his style may (hopefully) be found in my book, where I have tried to be as honest…

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