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Theodore Hoffman

Book Reviews

Spring 1955

47 Workshop

By Theodore Hoffman

George Pierce Baker And The American Theatre by Wisner Payne Kinne. Harvard University Press. $6.00. The image of George Pierce Baker is a rare one in modern letters: an academic […]

Communications

Winter 1954

Communication

By Theodore Hoffman

Sirs: A reviewer is entitled to his independent judgment, but Paul Goodman’s review of Eric Bentley’s In Search of Theatre (Autumn, 1953) strikes me as an exercise in critical incompetence […]

Nonfiction

Spring 1953

Theatre Letter

By Theodore Hoffman

Aristotle, as we know him, has interfered with my enjoyment of the theatre this half-season. I can’t help taking an extensive scholarly and critical apparatus to the theatre with me, […]