Martin Esslin (1918–2002)
Auteur van The Theatre of the Absurd
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Martin Esslin was at his death in 2002 at the age of 83, Emeritus Professor of Drama at Stanford University.
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Werken van Martin Esslin
Absurd Drama: Amedee, Professor Taranne, The Two Executioners, The Zoo Story (1965) — Introductie — 103 exemplaren
The Field of Drama: How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen (Plays and Playwrights) (1987) 48 exemplaren
The Encyclopedia of World Theater: With 420 Illustrations and an Index of Play Titles (1977) 18 exemplaren
Three German Plays (Woyzeck, Before Dawn, The Threepenny Opera) Buchner, Georg; Hauptmann, Gerhart, Brecht, Bertolt (1963) 5 exemplaren
The Language of Drama: Drama as a Language 2 exemplaren
Espedair Street Special (Abacus Books) 1 exemplaar
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- Pereszlényi, Julius
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Esslin, Martin Julius
Pereszlényi, Márton Gyula - Geboortedatum
- 1918-06-06
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2002-02-24
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- Hungary
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- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Budapest, Hungary
- Plaats van overlijden
- London, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Vienna, Austria
- Beroepen
- dramatist
critic
translator - Relaties
- Gerstenberg, Renate (wife)
Hochwälder, Fritz (author) - Organisaties
- British Broadcasting Corporation (joined|1940|producer and scriptwriter|European Service|head of BBC Radio Drama|1963-1977)
Florida state university (professor of theatre|1969-1976)
Stanford university (professor of drama|1977-1988)
Garrick Club
Royal Shakespeare Company (literary advisor)
Arts Council of Great Britain (Drama Panel member) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Order of the British Empire (1972)
- Korte biografie
- Nationality: United Kingdom
Born: Hungary, 06/06/1918
Death: London, 24/02/2002
Biography: Martin Esslin is a British writer and critic, born in Budapest, Hungary June 6, 1918 and died at the age of 83, in London February 24, 2002 following a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
Expatriate with his family in Vienna, Austria, Martin Esslin studied English and philosophy at university.
He began an acting career on stage at the seminar of Max Reinhardt drama but, in 1938, at the dawn of the theatrical debut, the Nazi occupation of Austria forced him to leave the country.
He spent a year in Brussels, Belgium, before settling in Britain where he became a writer and producer for the BBC. He was then promoted to head of radio drama during the 1960s. He fulfilled his dream by creating the "national theater," which he led the rest of his life.
During this period, the BBC produced hundreds of radio plays, he translated into English with his team. Martin Esslin is particularly known for having established, in one of his essays, the term "theater of the absurd," a phrase become popular since then.
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The main thing about this book that I really hated was the length of some of the chapters. The first chapter is 55 pages long, the third is 66 pages long, and the fifth is 83 pages long! The author really should've broken these chapters up into more easily digestible portions. Other than that this book is not bad, but also not particularly what I was looking for concerning its subject matter. I was expecting more of a discussion on the commonalities and conventions found in works in the Theatre of the Absurd. However, there is some useful information in there for my purposes at least.
Would I recommend this book to anyone? Well, if you have a particular interest in Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, Eugene Ionesco, and/or Jean Genet then yes as they are covered to some depth as is their work. Otherwise, probably not.… (meer)