Brecht - 'A Choice of Evils'

Informationen zum Autor Martin Esslin was the author of such ground-breaking classics as The Theatre of the Absurd and Brecht: A Choice of Evils , as well as The Field of Drama in which he focused on the semiology of drama. He joined the BBC in 1940 and was head of Drama (Radio) from 1963-1977. He published many collections of essays including Brief Chronicles: Essays on Modern Drama and Mediations: Essays on Brecht, Beckett and the Media . His critical articles used to appear regularly in Plays and Players , Encounters and many other periodicals. He was also a well-known translator of plays, particularly by German-speaking dramatists. He died in 2012. Klappentext A brilliantly perceptive study of the most ambiguous and perceptually fascinating figure of the twentieth-century European theatre Zusammenfassung A brilliantly perceptive study of the most ambiguous and perceptually fascinating figure of the twentieth-century European theatre

Product details

• Authors: Martin Esslin, Esslin Martin
• Publisher: Black A&C Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.1984
• EAN: 9780413547507
• ISBN: 978-0-413-54750-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Plays and Playwrights; Methuen Paperback; Plays and Playwrights; Methuen Paperback
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, german, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights