Martin Esslin

A new edition of the playwrights and plays that have shaped the evolution of the "Theatre of the Absurd" introduces developments in the contemporary theater that reflect changing attitudes toward the world, looking at the work of such playwrights as Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

The Theatre of the Absurd

Em 1953, Esperando Godot, de Samuel Beckett, estreava num minúsculo teatro de vanguarda parisiense. EM cinco anos, a peça já havia sido traduzida para mais de vinte idiomas e assistida por milhares de espectadores. SUa impressionante popularidade marcou o surgimento de um novo tipo de teatro cujos autores - Beckett, Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter e outros – estilhaçavam convenções dramáticas e tentavam transmitir a sensação de viver num mundo que parecia sem sentido. Publicado em 1961, O Teatro do Absurdo, de Martin Esslin (1918-2002), tornou-se referência absolutamente necessária na época, ao oferecer ao público e aos estudiosos uma obra abrangente e definitiva sobre esse movimento fundamental, embora então ainda novo. HOje, cinco décadas após, o livro seminal de Esslin não perdeu o frescor e segue como o que melhor descreve e analisa o trabalho desses artistas, em peças fundamentais como Esperando Godot, A cantora careca, O rinoceronte, Piquenique no front, As criadas, Festa de aniversário, História do zoológico e tantas outras. Nada menos que um clássico, essa edição, revista, atualizada e ampliada, traz tradução de Barbara Heliodora, apresentação de Paulo Francis e um novo prefácio escrito pelo autor, inédito no Brasil.

EDIÇÃO REVISTA, ATUALIZADA E AMPLIADA

O Teatro Do Absurdo

ANATOMY OF DRAMA

Reviews Artaud's theories and views on the theater in relation to his status as a cult figure, revolutionary force, and psychological case history

Antonin Artaud

With 420 Illustrations and an Index of Play Titles

The Encyclopedia of World Theater

Harold Pinter

The Man and His Work

First 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 discusses the mass media as dramatic art and their effects – radio as a medium for drama; television’s insatiable appetite for artistic skills, its commercials, and its series, which he labels modern folk epics. Intimately acquainted with the cultural implications of several languages and ideologies and with the possibility for distortion inherent in translating them, Esslin’s Mediations gathers together decades of his rich experience and reflections on cross linguistic and artistic boundaries, as well as theatre. This book will be of interest to students of literature, drama, and media studies.

Essays on Brecht, Beckett, and the Media

Mediations

First 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, including interviews with Pinter himself, to comment on Pinter’s career, his aesthetic and philosophical choices, and his oeuvre as a writer. The section devoted to his individual plays has been arranged in a chronological manner to visually represent the growth of the playwright and the relationship shared between his early and later works. Esslin, known for coining the term ‘theatre of the absurd,’ was himself an inspiration to Pinter and hence, the book records an intellectual and creative exchange between the author and his subject. The book will be of interest to students of literature, drama, history as well as to an academically inclined theatre audience.

A Study of His Plays

Pinter

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Plays and Essays: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Robert Musil

Robert D. Musil

The Enthusiasts

A Choice of Evils

Brecht

This book of criticism brings both theatre and film studies within a single theoretical framework.

How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen

The Field of Drama

'In 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'' (Irving Wardle, The Times) Martin Esslin''s study of Pinter''s plays has become a standard work since its publication in 1970. This sixth, revised edition - published to mark Pinter''s 70th birthday and updated to cover his most recent plays, Moonlight, Ashes to Ashes and Celebration - offers a comprehensive survey of the whole span of Harold Pinter''s writing career by one of the most distinguished commentators on modern theatre. ''It will certainly not be the last book on Pinter, but seems bound to remain one of the best'' John Russell Taylor ''Holds its place as the most straightforwardly useful account of Pinter''s work to date'' Times Literary Supplement'

Pinter, the Playwright

Sous ce nom, l'auteur regroupe les pièces de Beckett, Adamov, Ionesco, Genet, Tardieu, Vian, Arrabal, Frisch, Grass, Pinget, Pinter... En les analysant, il montre que des pièces, moins farfelues qu'elles n'en paraissent, possèdent une logique propre, s'attachant à créer des mythes, autrement dit une réalité plus psychologique de physique. Elles montrent que l'homme plongé dans un monde qui ne peut, ni répondre à ses questions, ni satisfaire ses désirs, un monde qui au sens existentialiste du mot est " absurde ". Cet essai, dont le Nouvel Observateur a dit qu'il s'agissait de " la meilleure étude d'ensemble sur le théâtre contemporain d'avant-garde ", ne se contente pas de traiter brillamment ce sujet, en touchant aux problèmes essentiels de notre temps.

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