Bøker av Martin Esslin

First published in 1980, Mediations supplements, extends, and deepens Martin Esslin's earlier writings on Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht.

First published in 1977, the third edition of Pinter is an excellent analysis of Harold Pinter and his works.

First published in 1977, the third edition of Pinter is an excellent analysis of Harold Pinter and his works.

First published in 1980, Mediations supplements, extends, and deepens Martin Esslin¿s earlier writings on Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht.

Having spent most of his career working with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Martin Esslin appraises American TV with the eyes of both a detached outsider and a concerned insider

Updated to cover Harold Pinter's most recent plays, including "Mountain Language", "The New World Order" and "Party Time", this revised edition offers a comprehensive survey of the whole span of Pinter's writing career.

The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the meaningless absurdity of the human condition. It is a testament to the power and insight of Martin Esslin's landmark work, originally published in 1961, that its title should enter the English language in the way that it has.Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series with a new preface by Marvin Carlson, The Theatre of the Absurd remains to this day a clear-eyed work of criticism on a compelling period of European writing.

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, Martin Esslin appraises American television with the eyes of both a detached outsider and a concerned insider.

A brilliantly perceptive study of the most ambiguous and perceptually fascinating figure of the twentieth-century European theatre

A unique book of criticism that brings both theatre and film studies within a single theoretical framework