Eric Bentley At 90

“Bentley won early and intense fame with his 1946 book ‘The Playwright as Thinker,’ which made the study of drama intellectually respectable for the first time. He then published several other ambitious and penetrating books, including ‘Bernard Shaw’ (1947), ‘The Life of the Drama’ (1964) and three collections of theater criticism, that fixed his place in the tiny pantheon of permanently interesting drama critics.”