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1	Theatre of the Absurd more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist Hamm: We're not beginning to to mean something? Clov: Mean something? You and I mean something? (from 'Endgame' by Samuel Beckett)Martin Esslin coined the phrase 'Theatre of the Absurd' in this ground-breaking book, and the term has become part of the language just as this book has become an indispensable part of any literature and drama library: ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.66! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Theater of Essence more books like this by Jan Kott, Martin Esslin (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.95! \| first editions
3	Plays and essays more books like this by Friedrich Durrenmatt, Volkmar Sander (Editor), Martin Esslin (Foreword by) add to wishlist Six richly inventive pieces by the Swiss master of existentialist theater. Includes "Romulus the Great, 21 Points to the Physician," and "A Monster Lecture on Justice and Law." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.80! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Anatomy of drama. more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist print price and ISBN with bar code on back cover see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.85! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Brecht: A Choice of Evils: A Critical Study of the Man, His Work and His Opinions more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist "A brilliantly perceptive study of the most ambiguous and perpetually fascinating figure of the twentieth century European theatre" (Kenneth Tynan) Brecht's influence on the theatre may well be as powerful as Kafka's influence on the novel and this study of Brecht's life and work was unanimously well received when first published just after the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.68! \| first editions
6	The Field of Drama: How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist A unique book of criticism that brings both theatre and film studies within a single theoretical framework Martin Esslin is the author of seminal critical studies such as The Theatre of the Absurd and Brecht: A Choice of Evils. Covering artists as diverse as Duchamp and Brecht, Busby Berkely and Congreve, Pinter and WC Fields, Esslin's approach is ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $24.67! \| first editions
7	Age of Television more books like this by Martin Esslin (Introduction by) add to wishlist A discussion of television and changes in the media over the last two decades of the 20th century. Having spent most of his career working with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Martin Esslin appraises American television with the eyes of both a detached outsider and a concerned insider. He states that American popular culture has become ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $26.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Essays on German Theater more books like this by Margaret Herzfeld-Sander, Martin Esslin (Foreword by) add to wishlist It is against this background of the theater's high prestige as a forum for ideas, as the summit of the literary arts, as the place where all the arts coalesce in a Wagnerian 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or dialectically oppose and ironize each other in Brechtian epic 'alienation, ' of the drama as a method of thought, of concrete philosophizing, that the ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $23.36! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Brecht; The Man and His Work more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
10	German Theater Before 1750: Sachs, Gryphius, Schlegel, and Others more books like this by Gerald Gillespie (Editor), Martin Esslin (Foreword by) add to wishlist An illustrative selection of German dramas from the baroque age and the early Enlightenment (i.e. prior to Lessing), by Sachs, Gryphius, Schlegel, and others. Foreword by Martin Esslin. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. see all copies from $3.57! new only from $6.00!
11	Pinter, the Playwright more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist In 1958 The Birthday Party was dismissed by all but a few critics and closed after one week's run in London. Since then Harold Pinter has come to be acknowledged as "our best living playwright" (Irving Wardle, The Times) Martin Esslin's study of Pinter's plays has become a standard work since its publication in 1970. This sixth, revised edition - ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $24.26!
12	Antonin Artaud more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.98!
13	Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays more books like this by Martin Esslin (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14	The peopled wound: the work of Harold Pinter. more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
15	Age of Television: Telephone & Beyond more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $329.18! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Four Plays: Flood/Mister, Mister/Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo/The Wicked Cooks more books like this by Gunter Grass, Martin Esslin (Introduction by) add to wishlist Flood; Mister, Mister; Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo; The Wicked Cooks. Short plays belonging to the Theatre of the Absurd. Introduction by Marin Esslin. Translated by Ralph Manheim and A. Leslie Willson. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $8.99! \| first editions
17	The Theatre of the Absurd: 3rd Edition more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist Esslin shows how Samuel Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter and others have confronted a world in which there is no communication, where man - cut off from his traditional religious and metaphysical roots - flounders about in a purposeless void, shorn of all certainties. see all copies from $2.44! new only from $15.99!
18	Pinter: A Study of His Plays more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist see all copies from $3.25! first editions
19	Illustrated encyclopaedia of world theatre more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
20	The Peopled Wound: The Plays of Harold Pinter more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist see all copies from $2.68! first editions
21	Bertolt Brecht more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist see all copies from $4.50! first editions
22	Artaud more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist see all copies from $14.45! first editions
23	Brief Chronicles: Essays on Modern Theatre more books like this by Martin Esslin add to wishlist see all copies from $12.68!
24	Lulu: A Sex Tragedy more books like this by Martin Esslin (Designer), Peter Barnes, Charlotte Beck (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.68!
25	Thètre De L'Absurde by Martin; Buchet Esslin, M.; Pierre, F. Del; Frank, F. add to wishlist see all copies from $76.02! new only from $76.02!

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