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Synopsis
Martin Esslin was born in Budapest and educated in Austria. He read Philosophy and English at Vienna University and graduated as a producer from the Reinhardt Seminar, the well-known dramatic academy. He left Austria in 1938 and in 1940 began working for the BBC as a producer, scriptwriter, and broadcaster. In 1963 he became Head of Radio Drama at the BBC, a position he held until his retirement in 1977. At his death in 2002 at the age of 83 he was Emeritus Professor of Drama at Stanford University.
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- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92644
- Title
- The Theatre of the Absurd
- Author
- Esslin, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamoc, Eugene Iodesco, Jean Genet
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theatre;
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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