Martin Esslin

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:birthDate 1918-06-06
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Budapest,_Hungary
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gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:deathDate 2002-02-24
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literary criticism
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theatre criticism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Martin Esslin
gptkbp:influenced theatre studies
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gptkb:Samuel_Beckett
gptkb:Eugène_Ionesco
gptkbp:knownFor coining the term 'Theatre of the Absurd'
gptkbp:language gptkb:German
English
gptkbp:nationality British
Hungarian
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author
literary criticism
drama producer
gptkbp:position Head of Radio Drama, BBC
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gptkb:Vienna,_Austria
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gptkb:Antonin_Artaud
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gptkb:Mediations:_Essays_on_Brecht,_Beckett,_and_the_Media
gptkb:The_Peopled_Wound:_The_Work_of_Harold_Pinter
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gptkb:Antonin_Artaud
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