Eric Bentley(1916-2020)
- Writer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Author, director, educator, educated at Oxford University
(scholarship)(BA, Litt. B.); Yale University (Ph.D.); Guggenheim
Fellowship. He taught literature and history in colleges throughout the
USA and in Europe, 1948-1951. He directed plays and was assistant to
Bertold Brecht. Between 1952 and 1956 he was Drama critic for The New
Republic. From 1953 he was Brander Matthews professor of dramatic
literature at Columbia University, and Norton professor of poetry at
Harvard University between 1960-1961. He joined ASCAP in 1964, and
adapted the operas "Orpheus in the Underworld" and "The Threepenny
Opera".
