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“This masterly transposition of the gaiety of Schnitzler’s Vienna into the tragic-comic gay life of New York shows us the foibles of our universal search beyond the thrill of encounter, towards the vision of pure love. So many-faceted that everyone will laugh a little, and identify a little. And there’s sure to be controversy among those who insist on an entirely uncritical picture of the gay community. And yet not one of the characters is without deep human sympathies; by an author who has dare to write, without romanticizing, nor criticizing, nor hiding much, of the many levels of gay life, as he has lived it and observed it.” —Judith Malina
Author(s)
Eric BentleyEric Bentley was born in England in 1916, became an American citizen in 1948, in 1998 was inducted into the (American) Theatre Hall of Fame, and in 2011 won a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Scholar, critic, teacher, performer, translator, and, finally, playwright , he has had many books published and many plays and adaptations performed. Several of his critical works have become classics, notably The Playwright as Thinker, Thinking about the Playwright, and The Life of the Drama. Today, nine of his plays are published by Northwestern University Press in three volumes entitled RALLYING CRIES, MONSTROUS MARTYRDOMS, and THE KLEIST VARIATIONS. Four more Bentley titles have recently been published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc: ROUND ONE, ROUND TWO, A TIME TO DIE AND A TIME TO LIVE, and THE STERNHEIM TRILOGY.
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