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Robert Benchley An Annotated Bibliography
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Gordon E. Ernst
Book Code: GR9321
ISBN: 0-313-29321-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29321-4
312 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/1995
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture
Series Number: 6
Reviews:
  • This volume draws together bibliographic information on books, essays, newspaper columns, and dramatic criticism. Appropriate for research collections on 20th-century humor or popular culture.
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    Choice
  • This bibliography does a great service for those researching Benchley and his contemporaries by providing access to little known items written by this twentieth-century humorist, as well as providing information on the films he appeared in and the content of his recordings. Recommended.
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    Reference Book Review
  • ...this work is useful and the most comprehensive bibliography on this U.S. humorist
    —ARBA
Description: When humorist Robert Benchley died in 1945 at the age of 56, he left behind a large body of little-known material. Some of this material was collected into book form during and after Benchley's lifetime, but much of it remains uncollected. This annotated bibliography brings together in one volume citations to most of Benchley's collected and uncollected works. The volume contains chapters on Benchley's books, essays, newspaper writings, dramatic criticism, secondary sources about him, a filmography, and a discography. The books chapter contains all of Benchley's major books and lists the contents of each. The chapters on his essays and newspaper writings detail his work for such publications as the New Yorker, Life, Liberty, Vanity Fair, the New York Tribune, New York World, and the Chicago Tribune. The dramatic criticism chapter contains all his theater reviews, for Life and the New Yorker, with the titles of the reviewed plays and the authors for each. Entries are numbered, cross-referenced, and indexed to assist the reader.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Books
  • Essays
  • Newspaper Writings
  • Dramatic Criticism
  • Secondary Sources
  • Filmography
  • Short Subjects
  • Feature Film Appearances
  • Other Feature Films with Contributions by Benchley
  • Discography
  • Recordings Featuring Benchley
  • Recordings of Benchley Material
  • A Benchley Publishing Chronology
  • Index
LC Card Number: 95-6293
LCC Class: PS3503
Dewey Class: 016.814
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