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Martin Esslin
AuthorBooks · Second hand1918-2002
Martin Julius Esslin OBE was a Hungarian-born British producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, known for coining the term "theatre of the absurd" in his 1961 book The Theatre of the Absurd. This work has been called "the most influential theatrical text of the 1960s".
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About Martin Esslin
Birth
1918
Death
2002
Martin Julius Esslin OBE was a Hungarian-born British producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, known for coining the term "theatre of the absurd" in his 1961 book The Theatre of the Absurd. This work has been called "the most influential theatrical text of the 1960s".
Martin Esslin was a key figure in theatre criticism, globally recognized for coining and defining the concept of the Theatre of the Absurd.
Born in Budapest in 1918, he developed a prolific career as a writer, translator, and university professor in the United Kingdom.
His seminal work, The Theatre of the Absurd, remains an essential reference text for understanding 20th-century drama.
Throughout his life, Esslin explored the work of Bertolt Brecht deeply, becoming one of his foremost scholars and critics.
With a career spanning nearly a hundred works, he left an indelible legacy as a theatre scholar and cultural journalist.
