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Robert Brustein

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#1404

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#2843

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#687

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Sanford Brustein was an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator. He founded the Yale Repertory Theatre while serving as dean of the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as the American Repertory Theater and Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a creative consultant until his death, and was the theatre critic for The New Republic. He commented on politics for the HuffPost.

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Robert Brustein's Published Works

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Culture Wars : Documents from the Recent Controversies in the Arts (1992) (68)
The Theatre of Revolt: An Approach to the Modern Drama (1971) (44)
The Third Theatre (1969) (20)
No More Masterpieces (1968) (13)
Seasons of discontent (1965) (10)
Seasons of discontent : dramatic opinions, 1959-1965 (1966) (10)
Reimagining American theatre (1991) (9)
Making scenes: A personal history of the turbulent years at Yale, 1966-1979 (1974) (7)
Revolution as theatre : notes on the new radical style (1971) (5)
Ibsen and Revolt (1962) (5)
The Crack in the Chimney: Reflections on Contemporary American Playwriting (1978) (5)
The New Hollywood: Myth and Anti-Myth (1959) (5)
Male and Female in August Strindberg (1962) (5)
Who Needs Theatre: Dramatic Opinions (1987) (5)
Critical Moments: Reflections on Theatre and Society 1973-1979 (1981) (4)
Journalist and Critic (1966) (4)
The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time (2009) (3)
Millennial Stages: Essays and Reviews 2001-2005 (2006) (3)
Williams' Nebulous Nightmare (1959) (3)
The culture watch (1975) (3)
The culture watch : essays on theatre and society, 1969-1974 (1975) (3)
Selected Plays and Prose (1964) (2)
Dumbocracy in America: Studies in the Theatre of Guilt, 1987-1994 (1994) (2)
Himalaya Criticism: A Speech to the American Theatre Critics Association (2002) (2)
Cultural Calisthenics: Writings on Race, Politics, and Theatre (1998) (2)
Theater after 9/11 (2013) (2)
The Theatre Critic as Thinker: a Round-Table Discussion (2009) (1)
When We Dead Awaken (1992) (1)
Personal Perspectives on Adrienne Kennedy (2012) (1)
More Masterpieces (2008) (1)
The Idea of Theatre at Yale: A Speech and an Interview. (1970) (1)
The Theatre of Guilt (1994) (1)
The Memory of Heroism (1960) (1)
Democracy and Culture (2000) (1)
Criticism and Credibility (1973) (0)
MEMOIR: George P. Elliott (2016) (0)
On Re-Printing Oneself: Or, the Third Brustein (1969) (0)
Time and Time Again@@@Artworks and Packages@@@Culture Gulch@@@Pop Art Redefined@@@Art in the Age of Risk@@@The Art of Time@@@The Idea of the Modern in Literature and the Arts@@@The Third Theatre@@@The Cult of Art (1971) (0)
Positions and Polemics (2006) (0)
Shotover’s Apocalypse: Omnium Gatherum; Anna in the Tropics (2017) (0)
The Function of Theatre Criticism at the Present Time (1983) (0)
Can Philosophers Be Angry (2016) (0)
The English Channel (2014) (0)
Büchner: Artist and Visionary (1972) (0)
Oedipus Nix: A Mythical Tragedy (1973) (0)
Critical moments: Reflection on theater & society, 1973-1979 (1979) (0)
Winter Passages: Reflections on Theatre and Society (2014) (0)
Hallie Flanagan Davis and the Federal Theatre: Hallie’s Comet (2017) (0)
The Eunuch at the Lamppost (2002) (0)
Henrik Ibsen. The Fate of Ibsenism (1978) (0)
The Humanist and the Artist (1980) (0)
Creations: Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night; Take Me Out; Our Lady of 121st Street (2017) (0)
The Far Side of a Watershed (2020) (0)
Word Plays: Collected Writings on Politics and Culture (2017) (0)
Plays and Productions (2006) (0)
The Lived Experience (2002) (0)
What a Life (1965) (0)
Museum and Library Services Act (1996): Editorial 02 (1989) (0)
Reimagining American Theatre@@@Theatre Criticism (1994) (0)
The English Stage (1966) (0)
Which Brustein at Yale (1966) (0)
Shakespeare’s Geography (2017) (0)
Reinventing American Theater (1992) (0)

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