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Seasons of Discontent

其他書名	Dramatic Opinions, 1959-1965
出版	Simon and Schuster, 1965
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eFQoAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Since 1959, Americans seriously interested in our theatre have increasingly found their spokesman in Robert Brustein, the brilliant young drama critic of The New Republic Brustein views theatre not as a compart- mentalized activity, not as isolated evenings of art or show biz, but in relation to the great tradition of the stage, and in the context of modern American life and culture. He is concerned with the audience as well as with play- wright, actor, producer and director. His pages are alive with the wit that derives from a just sense of proportion, a passionate love of the theatre and an equally passionate hatred of what is happening to it today. His book is a superb analytic record of a half decade of too frequent disaster and too occasional triumph on and off Broadway. It encompasses all the ramifications of our commercial theatre from the musical whose budget could finance a small country to the hand-to- mouth experiment. It considers, among other matters, the explosive career and demise of the Living Theatre, the Broadway occultism of Tiny Alice, the Brecht revival, the innovations of Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare in the Park and in the suburbs, the influence of the Actors Studio, the playwriting debut of Robert Lowell. It includes Mr. Brustein's famous prophetic vision of the downfall of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre as well as his latest assault on the irresponsibility of the homosexual and Negro avant-gardes. Seasons of Discontent, with its concrete, production-by-production look at the American theatre as it functions now, is a fascinating complement to the author's study of the major playwrights of the past century, The Theatre of Revolt, and will, we believe, be as strongly admired by all who are concerned with the long history and present condition of the stage. About the Author Robert Brustein, at 38, is both critic and a Professor of English Literature at Columbia University. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children."-Publisher