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Eric Bentley

(1916–2020) Playwright

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Eric Bentley was a playwright.

Quick Facts About Eric Bentley

Born: September 14, 1916
Died: August 5, 2020
Profession: Playwright

About Eric Bentley

[Wikidata] American playwright (1916–2020)... | [Wikipedia] Eric Russell Bentley was a British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor, and translator. In 1998, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the New York Theater Hall of Fame, recognizing his many years of cabaret performances.

Quotes by Eric Bentley

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Breast cancer

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A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

Actors

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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…

Age

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Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our…

Born

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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…

Age

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Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

Comedy

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“Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or…

Better man

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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Biographies

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Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Fashion

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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 worldis…

Contribution

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“What then is the difference between film and theatre? Or should one not rather ask: what are the differences? Let us be…

Cinema

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