About Eric Bentley
Eric Bentley’s legacy continues in the body of enormous work he left behind. Please enjoy this selection of his plays, translations, records, books, criticism, as well writings about the man himself.
Playwright
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?
The Good Woman of Setzuan (musical)
From the Memoirs of Pontius Pilate
The Recantation of Galileo Galileli
A Time To Live & A Time To Die (published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.)
Lord Alfred's Lover (collected in Monstrous Martyrdoms, 1985)
Wannsee, a Tragi-Comedy (published in The Massachusetts Review Vol. 20, No. 3)
H for Hamlet
German Requiem (collected in Monstrous Martyrdoms, 1985)
Round One (published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.)
Round Two (published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.)
"The Sternheim Trilogy" containing The Underpants, The Snob, & 1913 (published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.)
Editor
The Modern Theatre
The Classic Theatre
Eric Bentley's Dramatic Repertoire
From the Modern Repertoire
Translator
The Brecht-Eisler Song Book (sheet music)
Eric Bentley’s Brecht-Eisler Song Book (CD)
Mother Courage and Her Children
Fear and Misery in the Third Reich
Biographer
Modern Hero-Worship: Notes on Carlyle, Nietzsche, and Stefan George
Drama Critic
What Is Theatre?: Incorporating The Dramatic Event and Other Reviews, 1944-1967
A Century of Hero Worship
In Search of Theater
Theater of War
Thinking About The Playwright
Cabaret Artist
Bertolt Brecht before the Committee on Un-American Activities: An Historical Encounter
A Man's A Man by Bertolt Brecht
Bentley on Brecht: Songs and Poems of Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht's The Exception and the Rule
The Elephant Calf and Small Comments on Large Themes
Bentley on Biermann: Songs and Poems of Wolf Biermann
Eric Bentley Sings The Queen of 42nd Street
Writings about Eric
THEATER; A Memory Vault Rich in Lore of the Stage (New York Times interview)
100th birthday interview with Michael Riedel of theater talk (produced and directed by Karyn Levitt/Royal Road Productions and filmed by Asaf Blasberg)
Obituary (New York Times)
Obituary (Guardian)
Obituary (International Brecht Society)
Eric Bentley: On Hero Worship and Degradation (Interview with Nathaniel Nesmith, TDR 2002)
An Interview with Eric Bentley (Yale Review, 2003)