Martin Esslin (1918–2002)

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2. Bertolt Brecht

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4. Harold Pinter

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5. Eugene Ionesco

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6. Tom Stoppard

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7. Edward Albee

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8. Eugene O'Neill

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9. Peter Brook

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10. Antonin Artaud

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11. Jean-Paul Sartre

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12. Northrop Frye

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13. Peter Weiss

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14. George Bernard Shaw

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15. Luigi Pirandello

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16. Hugh Kenner

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17. William Empson

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18. Federico García Lorca

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19. Alfred Jarry

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20. John Osborne

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