Eric Bentley
Eric Russell Bentley (Bolton, Lancashire,  - New York City, ) era un critico theatral, dramaturgo, cantor, redactor, e traducitor. In 1998, ille era admittite al Sala de Fama Theatral Statounitese. Ille era alsi un membro del Sala de Fama Theatral de Nove York, in recognition de su multe annos de representationes in cabaret.

Biographia
Nate in Bolton, Lancashire, Anglaterra, Bentley studeva in Oxford University, recipente su grado in 1938. Depost ille studeva a Yale University (B. Litt. in 1939 e Ph.D. in 1941), ubi ille recipeva le Premio John Addison Porter.

Comenciante in 1953, Bentley inseniava a Columbia University e era un critico theatral pro le magazin The New Republic. Ille deveniva cognoscite pro su stylo brusc de criticismo theatral e era menaciate de litigation per ambe Tennessee Williams e Arthur Miller pro su recensiones disfavorabile de lor obra. In 1960–1961, Bentley era le Charles Eliot Norton Professor a Harvard University.

Bentley era un del expertos preeminente re Bertolt Brecht, qui ille incontrava al Universitate de California, Los Angeles como un homine juvene e cuje obra ille traduceva extensivemente. Ille editava le edition de Grove Press del obra de Brecht, e faceva duo albumes del cantos de Brecht pro Folkways Records, le major parte de qual previemente non era jammais gravate in anglese.

In 1968, ille signava le voto del Writers and Editors War Tax Protest, jurante a refusar pagamento de taxas in opposition al participation statounitese in le Guerra Vietnamese Civil.

Su ludo The Red, White, and Black (Le Rubie, Blanc, e Nigre) era representate a La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in 1971 in collaboration con le Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Division.

Comenciante in 1975, Andrei Serban dirigeva plure productiones del traduction per Bentley de Le Bon Femina de Setzuan a La MaMa, com musica per Elizabeth Swados. Le production de 1975 era sequite per un production in 1976 e un altere production in 1978. Le Great Jones Repertory Company alsi representava le ludo in plure citates in Europa in 1976.

Bentley era elegite un Fellow del American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969. Le mesme anno, ille faceva public su homosexualitate. In un interview in le The New York Times le 12 de novembre 2006, ille diceva que ille era sposate duo vices ante annunciar publicamente su sexualitate al etate de 53, a qual tempore illa departiva su position como le Brander Matthews Professor de Litteratura Dramatic a Columbia pro concentrar in su scripto. Ille citava su homosexualitate como un influentia in su obra theatral, in particular Lord Alfred's Lover, basate in le vita de Oscar Wilde]].

Ille ha ganiate le Premio Obie pro Complimento in Theatro in Su Vita del American Theatre Wing in 2006 e un Premio Robert Chesley in 2007.

Bentley deveniva un citatano statounitese in 1948 e viveva in New York City. Un centenario, ille moriva al etate de 103 annos.

Obras selegite 
Ille scribeva multe libros de criticismo theatral. In addition, ille era le redactor de The Importance of Scrutiny (1964), un collection de Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review, e Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1968 (1971). Su ludo le plus frequentemente representate, Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been: The Investigations of Show-Business by the Un-American Activities Committee 1947–1958 (1972), era basate in le transcriptiones del House Un-American Activities Committee collegite in Thirty Years of Treason.

Libros (criticismo theatral) 

 1944: A Century of Hero Worship
 1946: The Playwright As Thinker
 1947: Bernard Shaw
 1948: The Modern Theatre
 1953: In Search of Theater
 1956: What Is Theatre?
 1964: The Life of the Drama
 1971: Thirty Years of Treason
 1972: Theater of War
 1981: Brecht Commentaries
 1987: Thinking About The Playwright

Ludos

1967: A Time To Live & A Time To Die (publicate per Broadway Play Publishing Inc.)
1972: Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been: The Investigations of Show-Business by the Un-American Activities Committee 1947–1958 
1979: Lord Alfred's Lover (collegite in Monstrous Martyrdoms, 1985)
1985: H for Hamlet 
German Requiem (collegite in Monstrous Martyrdoms, 1985)
Round One (publicate per Broadway Play Publishing Inc.)
Round Two (publicate per Broadway Play Publishing Inc.)
"The Sternheim Trilogy" continente The Underpants, The Snob, & 1913 (publicate per Broadway Play Publishing Inc.)

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Facultate de Columbia University