Martin Julius Esslin OBE (6 June 1918 – 24 February 2002) was a Hungarian-born British producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic...

and illogical speech and to the ultimate conclusion—silence. Critic Martin Esslin coined the term in his 1960 essay "The Theatre of the Absurd", which...

from 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...

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...

argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified as and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays...

called a "masterpiece" by veteran theater critic Michael Billington, as Martin Esslin had in 1960. Losey had also directed the first performances of the play...

constitutes "the first great Brechtian play in French literature." Martin Esslin has called The Balcony "one of the masterpieces of our time." Most of...

flood of completely meaningless gibberish" by Martin Esslin in his essay, "The Theatre of the Absurd". Esslin suggests that this seemingly involuntary, philosophical...

"pigeonholed") by Irving Wardle and later critics as a "comedy of menace" and by Martin Esslin as an example of the Theatre of the Absurd. It includes such features...

end of 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...

Tragic elements can be included in comedy, the way to go is grotesque. Martin Esslin (1918–2002) categorized the schools of modern dramatics that developed...

more-prevalently accepted literary-critical coinages by critics like Martin Esslin (Theatre of the Absurd), who extended the existential philosophical...

understand those costumes." Of the performance, the dramatist and critic Martin Esslin called Hordern's portrayal "a magnificent creation" before going on...

sound collages by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Martin Esslin, BBC Director of Drama (Radio), was associated with the network's productions...

Search of an Author and A Midsummer Night's Dream, among other plays. Martin Esslin was a classmate during this time. While on the rise as an actor, in...

Humanitas. p. 100. ISBN 978-973-50-2637-0. The Theatre of the Absurd, by Martin Esslin, revised and enlarged edition; published 1968 by Pelican Books; p. 137...

Theatre of the Absurd. The term "Theatre of the Absurd" was coined by Martin Esslin to describe a tendency in theatre in the 1950s; he related it to Albert...

playwright Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama The Theatre of the Absurd, although...

states that she would rather die than live a mediocre existence. Critic Martin Esslin in his book Theatre of the Absurd pointed out how many contemporary...

the 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...

as beginning in the 1950s with the plays of Samuel Beckett. Critic Martin Esslin coined the term in his 1960 essay, "Theatre of the Absurd." He related...

of 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...

magical realism but also of the Theatre of the Absurd as defined by Martin Esslin. There are clearly elements of the likes of Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett...

moments are often happening beneath outwardly trivial conversation." Martin Esslin, from Text and Subtext in Shavian Drama, in 1922: Shaw and the last...

Bergman 1960, pp. 145–146. Bergman 1960, p. 172. Bragg 1998, pp. 40, 45. Martin Esslin. Mediations: Essays on Brecht, Beckett and the Media. Abacus. London...

attributed by the author to a suggestion from the German dramatist. Martin Esslin, the renowned drama professor and theater critic, wrote in the introduction...

as beginning in the 1950s with the plays of Samuel Beckett. Critic Martin Esslin coined the term in his 1960 essay "Theatre of the Absurd". He related...

the Shelley play in 1949 entitled Beatrice Cenci with a libretto by Martin Esslin "after Shelley's verse drama The Cenci". The opera won first prize in...

WALTER KERR. New York Times 4 June 1967: X1. A Strike For 'Murders' By MARTIN ESSLIN. New York Times 23 July 1967: 69. Arkin Staging Feiffer Play New York...

Athletes: All the World's a Stage (Kluwer Law International, 1995) p77-78 Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd (Random House Digital, 2009) Trenear-Harvey...