Eric Bentley obituary
Writer on drama and champion of Brecht who shared Shaw's view that theatre should add to people's livesThe first half of the life of Eric Bentley, who has died aged 103, constituted a classic success story for a migrant to the US from suburban Lancashire. He became a celebrated theatre critic, translator and academic, but then changed tack to creating rather than commentating. Having gained a BLitt at Oxford, in 1939…