Download or read book The Critic and the Drama written by George Jean Nathan and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) was formative influence on American letters in the first half of this century, and is generally considered the leading drama critic of his era. With H. L. Mencken, Nathan edited The Smart Set and founded and edited The American Mercury, journals that shaped opinion in the 1920s and 1930s. This series of reprints, individually introduced by the distinguished critic and novelist Charles Angoff, collects Nathan's penetrating, witty, and sometimes cynical drama criticism.