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The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.39The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark,... -
Pinter the Playwright by Martin Esslin 9780413668608
Booksplease Price: £25.91In 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"... -
Anatomy of Drama by Martin Esslin 9780809005505
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809005505Author Martin EsslinFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher... -
The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin 9781400075232
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400075232Author Martin EsslinFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Pinter: A Study of His Plays by Martin Esslin
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.03First published in 1977, the third edition of Pinter is an excellent analysis of Harold Pinter and his works. Written when Pinter was only a few plays old, the book draws on several sources,... -
Pinter: A Study of His Plays Martin Esslin 9781032327662
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81First published in 1977, the third edition of Pinter is an excellent analysis of Harold Pinter and his works. Written when Pinter was only a few plays old, the book draws on several sources,... -
Mediations: Essays on Brecht, Beckett, and the Media by Martin Esslin
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.03First published in 1980, Mediations supplements, extends, and deepens Martin Esslin's earlier writings on Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht. In the third section of this collection of essays, Esslin... -
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Brecht: "A Choice of Evils" by Martin Esslin 9780413547507
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Mediations: Essays on Brecht, Beckett, and the Media Martin Esslin 9781032331409
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81First published in 1980, Mediations supplements, extends, and deepens Martin Esslin’s earlier writings on Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht. In the third section of this collection of essays, Esslin... -
The Field of Drama: How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen by Martin Esslin 9780413192608
Booksplease Price: £28.09A 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... -
Is Shakespeare Still Our Contemporary? by John Elsom
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.80First published in 2004. The publication of Jan Kott's Shakespeare Our Contemporary some twenty-five years ago had an immediate impact on Shakespearian criticism and productions. This book is an... -
Affirming the Absurd in Harold Pinter by Jane Wong Yeang Chui 9781137345349
Booksplease Price: £46.28Using Martin Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter's works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and... -
Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Science on Stage is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of "science plays"--theatrical events that weave scientific content into the plot lines of the drama. The book investigates the... -
Just Play: Beckett's Theater by Ruby Cohn 9780691616025
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.84The author ranges through Beckett's drama to analyze his approach to place, time, soliloquy, fiction, and repetition. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Samuel Beckett: A Study of His Novels by Eugene Webb 9780295994345
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.23Collectively the works of Samuel Beckett, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, reveal a remarkable continuity of theme. Together his writings present a particular view of life and each... -
Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism by Rhonda K. Garelick
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international... -
Censoring Translation: Censorship, Theatre, and the Politics of Translation by Michelle Woods 9781441100573
Booksplease Price: £37.81A play is written, faces censorship and is banned in its native country. There is strong international interest; the play is translated into English, it is adapted, and it is not performed. Censoring... -
Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama by Enoch Brater 9780472750450
Booksplease Price: £38.13When Martin Esslin published The Theatre of the Absurd in 1961 he caught the pulse of Western drama as it burst into bold and surprising new forms after the Second World War. Around the Absurd is the... -
The World of Samuel Beckett by Joseph H. Smith
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25"The World of Samuel Beckett" brings together a distinguished group of authorities, among them Beckett's longtime associates and colleagues Herbert Blau and Martin Esslin. In a chapter on Beckett's... -
Reading the Absurd by Joanna Gavins
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96This title challenges traditional scholarship on absurdist literature, privileging the reader and the genre's stylistic achievements. Since Martin Esslin coined 'the Theatre of the Absurd' to... -
![Strindberg Plays: v.1: "The Father", "Miss Julie", "Ghost Sonata" by August Strindberg 9780413521606](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5206490/5283751/9780413521606__40799.1724669233.jpg?c=1 "Strindberg Plays: v.1: "The Father", "Miss Julie", "Ghost Sonata" by August Strindberg 9780413521606")
Strindberg Plays: v.1: "The Father", "Miss Julie", "Ghost Sonata" by August Strindberg 9780413521606
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.25This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father, which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women... -
Reading the Absurd by Joanna Gavins 9780748669264
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19This title challenges traditional scholarship on absurdist literature, privileging the reader and the genre's stylistic achievements. Since Martin Esslin coined 'the Theatre of the Absurd' to... -
Brecht Sourcebook by Henry Bial
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Bertolt Brecht is one of the most prolific and influential writer-directors of the twentieth century. This fascinating anthology brings together in one volume many of the most important articles... -
Collected Plays: Volume 1: A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Soyinka
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £17.64The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays... -
The Man Who: A Theatrical Research by Peter Brook 9780413771414
Booksplease Price: £14.74A new work from Peter Brook - the contemporary theatre's greatest inventor Whatever the social and national barriers, we all have a brain and we think we know it. But, the moment we go inside, we... -
The Vanishing Hours Barney Norris 9780857525710
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Shot through with compassion . . . this dreamlike, winding tale is a joy.' A. L. KENNEDY 'Moving and unconventionally wise' Guardian This was how I heard the most important story of my life, the... -
Undercurrent: The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful novel about finding yourself, from the Times bestselling author of Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris 9781804991848
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Lyrical' Daily Mail'Beautiful' Spectator'Skilled' Financial Times'Vulnerable' Guardian'Deft' Independent'Profound' Observer'The beginning of summer. Perhaps it crosses my mind even now while I wait... -
Greek Tragedy and the Modern World Leo Aylen 9781032959306
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £101.23First published in 1964, Greek Tragedy and the Modern World begins with the question what is Tragedy? Most discussion assumes some essence of Tragedy in certain plays at certain periods, and... -
Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage by Carl Lavery 9781472506672
Booksplease Price: £122.05Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre... -
The Vanishing Hours Barney Norris 9781784163815
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'Shot through with compassion . . . this dreamlike, winding tale is a joy.' A. L. KENNEDY 'Moving and unconventionally wise.' Guardian________________________This was how I heard the most important... -
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain Barney Norris 9781784161354
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A Times bestseller'Wonderful...I was hooked from the first page. It's the real stuff.' - Michael Frayn'Deeply affecting' - Guardian'Superb' - Mail on Sunday'Barney Norris is a rare and precious... -
Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter by M. Bennett 9780230113381
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £36.20Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major... -
Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter by M. Bennett 9781137378767
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £35.21Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major... -
Turning for Home Barney Norris 9781784161361
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05The deeply moving second novel from the author of the award-winning FIVE RIVERS MET ON A WOODED PLAIN.'Courageous...memorable...moving' - Guardian'One of our most exciting young writers' - The... -
The Routledge Drama Anthology: Modernism to Contemporary Performance by Maggie B. Gale
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £50.31The Routledge Drama Anthology is an original compilation of works from key movements in the history of the modern theatre, from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. This expanded... -
Undercurrent by Barney Norris
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Lyrical' Daily Mail'Beautiful' Spectator'Skilled' Financial Times'Vulnerable' Guardian'Deft' Independent'Profound' Observer'The beginning of summer. Perhaps it crosses my mind even now while I wait...