"Tops in its field"
CONYRI BUYORS
-JOHN BARKHAM
THE
PLAY
A Critical Anthology
Edited by
ERIC BENTLEY
Nine great plays - from Soph–
ocles to Arthur Miller - pre–
sent a greater understanding
and critical enjoyment of dra–
matic art. The reader is chal–
lenged to exercise his critical
perception in considering the
popular
contemporary
play
Death of a Salesman
in the light
of the drama-tic masterpieces
previously read. To make the
"problem"
more
interesting,
critical reviews of the play by
Brooks Atkinson, John Mason
Brown, Eleanor Clark and Ivor
Brown are given as representa–
tive reactions to the work, to–
gether with Arthur Miller's own
opinions on the nature of
tragedy.
All the foreign translations are
stage versions, four of them ap–
pearing for the first time in this
book.
"This excellent and unhackneyed
anthology of the drama . . . is
invaluable in its informed anal–
ysis of every phase of the art of
playwriting . . . Mr. Bentley
has immeasurably enhanced the
reader's enjoyment with his
astute commentaries . . . Be–
speaks authority, erudition and
good taste."
$3.65
Saturday Review of
Literature Syndicate
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Tho P d 8erllorac, E. Earnest,
Cyrano eortance of Being
The ImP Wilde
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Shake.peare
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Ghos
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PRENTICE-HALL,
Inc.,
New York
ANDRE MALRAUX's "Art, Popu–
lar Art, and the Illusion of the Folk"
will be included in the forthcoming
definitive French edition of "Essais
de Psychologie de l'Art,"
HANS MEYERHOFF teaches at
U.C.L.A, His "Mr, Eliot's Sunday
Evening Service" appeared in the
January 1948 issue of PR,
FRANCIS FERGUSSON, the author
of the recent "The Idea of the
Theater," teaches at Princeton,
RICHARD CHASE's latest book
was a study of Melville. He is now
at work on a critical biography of
Emily Dickinson for the American
Men of Letters Series.
IRVING HOWE's book on Sher–
wood Anderson appeared this
spring.
Among the films to be shown bV
Cinoma 16 during its forthcoming
s.ason will be Kennath Anllar's
famed and controversial Interna·
tiona I Prixe Winner, FIREWORKS
("The most &xcitinll .so of cinema
I have saen" Tennessee Williams);
James Broullhton's new experlment·
al film, FOUR IN THE AFTER·
NOON.
a provocative visualization
of four of his poems; and Georlle
Franju's tormented masterpiece, LE
SANG DES BETES, Prix Joan Vigo,
France 1950, at last presented In
America. For full programs, address:
Dept. W, CINEMA 16
59 Park Ave., N.
y,
16, MU 9·7288
