Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People enjoy tragedy because they are culprits, Eric Bentley contended last . They identify the guilt of a tragic hero with their own. "In tragedy we the most single-minded and complete identification with guilt of any art soever...
...only an angel, but also a" the critic said in his next to last Charles Eliot Norton lecture. He described melodrama and farce--the "lower" dramatic forms--as "childish," while and comedy are more "grown-up." "The high forms can be distinguished the low by a respect for reality," Bentley maintained...
...this reason, tragedy is an "explora- the morbid," and a "disturbance" as an outlet for guilt. Shake tragedy, Bentley said, "finds soft in human nature. It is Macbeth, Chatterly's Lover, that should from the mails...
...other hand, is "not too in tragedy," Bentley maintained. are voluptuous, and drama can't too much voluptuousness. The stop so that the play...
...minor omission in the CRIMSON Review article on Brecht yesterday was the title of the book under discussion. It was Seven Plays by Bertolt Brecht, edited and with an introduction by Eric Bentley; Grove Press, New York, 1961. 537pp...