Eric Bentley attended Oxford in the late 1930s. Bentley taught at Columbia University for almost 20 years and also taught at Harvard, the State University of New York-Buffalo, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Maryland. He wrote plays with gay themes as well as articles about homosexuality in theatre.
| Names |
Eric Bentley (Main)
BE [n76.170]
Eric Russell Bentley (altName)
BE [Bud Coleman, “Bentley, Eric (b. 1916),” GLBTQ Archive, 2006, http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/bentley_e_A.pdf] |
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| Related Pages | Eric Bentley on LGLC
Eric Bentley on VIAF |
| Birth Date | 1916/09/14 |
| Birth Place | https://lglc.ca/place/Bolton,ENG/ |
| Identities |
Homosexual
BG [Bud Coleman, “Bentley, Eric (b. 1916),” GLBTQ Archive, 2006, http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/bentley_e_A.pdf] BritishBG [Bud Coleman, “Bentley, Eric (b. 1916),” GLBTQ Archive, 2006, http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/bentley_e_A.pdf], [Jonathan Kalb, “A Critic Has Praise for a Playwright (Himself),” The New York Times, 12 November 2006, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/ AmericanBG [Bud Coleman, “Bentley, Eric (b. 1916),” GLBTQ Archive, 2006, http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/bentley_e_A.pdf], [Jonathan Kalb, “A Critic Has Praise for a Playwright (Himself),” The New York Times, 12 November 2006, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/ |