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Theatre of the Absurd
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Martin Esslin
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: ...
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Theater of Essence
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Jan Kott, Martin Esslin (Introduction by)
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Plays and essays
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Friedrich Durrenmatt, Volkmar Sander (Editor), Martin Esslin (Foreword by)
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."
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Anatomy of drama.
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Martin Esslin
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Brecht: A Choice of Evils: A Critical Study of the Man, His Work and His Opinions
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Martin Esslin
"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 ...
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The Field of Drama: How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen
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Martin Esslin
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 ...
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Age of Television
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Martin Esslin (Introduction by)
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 ...
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Essays on German Theater
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Margaret Herzfeld-Sander, Martin Esslin (Foreword by)
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 ...
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Brecht; The Man and His Work
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German Theater Before 1750: Sachs, Gryphius, Schlegel, and Others
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Gerald Gillespie (Editor), Martin Esslin (Foreword by)
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.
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Pinter, the Playwright
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Martin Esslin
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 - ...
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Antonin Artaud
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Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays
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Martin Esslin (Editor)
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The peopled wound: the work of Harold Pinter.
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Age of Television: Telephone & Beyond
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Four Plays: Flood/Mister, Mister/Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo/The Wicked Cooks
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Gunter Grass, Martin Esslin (Introduction by)
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.
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The Theatre of the Absurd: 3rd Edition
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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.
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Pinter: A Study of His Plays
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Illustrated encyclopaedia of world theatre
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The Peopled Wound: The Plays of Harold Pinter
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Bertolt Brecht
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Artaud
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Brief Chronicles: Essays on Modern Theatre
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Lulu: A Sex Tragedy
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Martin Esslin (Designer), Peter Barnes, Charlotte Beck (Translator)
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Thètre De L'Absurde
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Martin; Buchet Esslin, M.; Pierre, F. Del; Frank, F.
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