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Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

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Eric Bentley
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 14
Died: 2020
Died: August 5
Critic
Journalist
Playwright
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Theatre Critic
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Eric Russell Bentley
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