If theatre captivates you, Eric Bentley's "The Life of the Drama" offers insightful reflections that mirror how life itself plays out on stage. The detailed discussions invite you to revisit them, each read revealing new facets like an unfolding play. Its quality has readers returning, uncovering layers within theatre's compelling language and our very existence.

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• National Book Award Finalist for Arts and Letters (1965)

“Eric Bentley's radical new look at the grammar of theatre...is a work of exceptional virtue... The book justifies its title by being precisely about the ways in which life manifests itself in the theatre...This is a book to be read again and again.” – Frank Kermode, The New York Review of Books

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