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Martin Julius Esslin OBE (6 June 1918 – 24
February 2002) was a Hungarian-born
British producer, dramatist, journalist,
adaptor and translator, critic...
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Arthur Adamov, and Eugène Ionesco.
Esslin says that
their plays have a
common denominator—the "absurd", a word that
Esslin defines with a
quotation from Ionesco:...
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their work.
Martin Esslin, a
literary critic,
coined the term "Theatre of the Absurd" in his 1960
essay Theatre of the Absurd.
Esslin related these selected...
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World War II.:98 La
Parodie (1947) was his
first play,
which Martin Esslin has
identified as "an
attempt to come to
terms with neurosis, to make psychological...
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critic Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd" (in his 1963 book of the same name).
Though not an
organized movement,
Esslin grouped these playwrights...
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Arthur Adamov, and Eugène Ionesco.
Esslin says that
their plays have a
common denominator — the "absurd", a word that
Esslin defines with a
quotation from...
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considered one of the last
modernist writers, and a key
figure in what
Martin Esslin called the
Theatre of the Absurd. A
resident of
Paris for most of his adult...
- the Absurd, a
label originally given to him by
Martin Esslin in his book of the same name.
Esslin,
placed Ionesco alongside contemporaries Samuel Beckett...
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Impossible Theatre: The
Legacy of the
Theatre of Cruelty. MIT Press. pp. 15–40.
Esslin,
Martin (2001).
Theatre of the Absurd.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing. ISBN 1-4000-7523-8...
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attributed by the
author to a
suggestion from the
German dramatist.
Martin Esslin, the
renowned drama professor and
theater critic,
wrote in the introduction...
